Eleven years ago, Aaron Alexander was convicted and imprisoned for killing 9 year old Joshua by running him over while high on drugs. He has served his sentence and is released from prison and Joshua’s mum is determined to kill him. Can Tobias stop his wife from exacting her terrible revenge…?
Redemption is a tense and emotional thriller set in America.
Evelyn has been planning her revenge on her son’s killer and is now ready to put her plan into action. Her husband goes along with it but is hoping to persuade her to change her mind. So Evelyn drugs him and abandons him at a hotel so she can proceed. Tobias has to think on his feet to reach Aaron and protect him.
Wow. What a fantastically dreadful premise. The death of a child is one that no parent ever wants to imagine. Tobias and Evelyn have been driven apart by their grief and her determination to seek revenge. The book is written from the first person narratives of Evelyn, Tobias and Aaron. Each character is vividly depicted and the emotion was raw and honest. They are three dimensional characters and inspire a range of emotions in the reader.
There are some violent episodes and mentions of abuse and suffering. However these emphasise the emotional motivation of the characters rather than being gratuitous. I loved the dilemma scenario created and sustained throughout the book. Do two wrongs ever make a right? The book concludes satisfactorily and I felt uplifted by the hope for the future, that all characters got the redemption they deserved.
Redemption is a brilliant thriller full of complex emotions.
Book blurb
Aaron Alexander has just been released from jail after serving eleven years for causing the death of Joshua Moore in a hit-and-run. Now a free man, all he wants to do is stay on the straight and narrow and leave his troubled past behind him.
But for Joshua’s mother Evelyn, eleven years in jail isn’t nearly enough. Consumed by grief and rage, she has been waiting for Aaron’s release, counting down the days until she can exact the revenge he deserves. And now that time has come.
However, as Evelyn and her husband Tobias embark on a road trip to track Aaron down, they soon find themselves caught on two different sides of a gripping game of cat-and-mouse. Because Tobias knows what Evelyn is planning, and he will do anything to save her from herself. Even if it means protecting the man who killed their son.
Locked in a collision course set in motion eleven years ago, Aaron, Evelyn and Tobias are about to find out whether the road they have chosen leads to retribution . . . or redemption.
