KEEP QUIET by Lisa Scottoline published by St. Martin's Press in 2014. This book is a very fast read, why? First you just want to smack the characters in the head and then you want them to do the right thing and you are hoping that they do it sooner rather than later. I did not want to put the book down because I wanted desperately to find out the above things.
This book starts out with two characters Jake the father, financier and workaholic, picking up his son Ryan, high school basketball player and good student, who is somewhat estranged from his father. This is because his father is a workaholic and hardly has time for his son's academically or with sports. That seems to be the job of the mother Pam. Pam wants them to bond more so she sends Jake to pick up Ryan from the movies. Jake wants to be the cool parent so when Ryan begs to let him drive his new car, Jake says yes. Then on a blind curve they hit a body, one not seen by either person. Ryan had been smoking marijuana, so instead of calling 911, they leave the body. They do not tell anyone, including Pam who is a judge. They decide to keep quiet.
However, our author decided to put some twists and turns in the book, that come out slowly, which makes you want to read faster. At my book club we discussed the style of book, what our emotions were and whether we would do what Jake did to protect his son, especially when that son had to deal with the fact that the body was a classmate and he had to go to school where everyone was mourning her. Maybe my book club is not risk takers, but we would not have left the body there. We, unanimously, said we would have called 911. I said why not hide the weed, they may have checked if he was drinking, but with the father in the car, they probably would not have been so suspicious of the event. But, then we would not have a story with blackmail, murder, guilt, ruin and deceit.
Overall, an emotional account that makes you think "What would I do?" Good book.
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