Synopsis from Goodreads: M.T. Edvardsson’s A Nearly Normal Family is a gripping legal thriller that forces the reader to consider: How far would you go to protect the ones you love? In this twisted narrative of love and murder, a horrific crime makes a seemingly normal family question everything they thought they knew about their life—and one another.
Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him?
Stella’s father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect. Told in an unusual three-part structure, A Nearly Normal Family asks the questions: How well do you know your own children? How far would you go to protect them?
Genre? Mystery. Some would call it Thriller or Legal Thriller.
Backlist? Yes. Published June 25th, 2019.
New to me Author? Yes
Why I rated it 5 stars? I don't know why I was so hesitant to read this and why it took me so long to start (I got it in my June 2019 Book of the Month box). It was AMAZING. Told in three parts, we hear about the time between a murder and the trial as told through the viewpoints of Stella's dad, Stella, and Stella's mom. After each part, I thought I had a pretty solid grip on whether Stella was guilty or not and if not - who was. But time and time again I would read about a new part of the timeline and find out I was wrong. This was a quick read and I wanted to keep turning the pages to figure out what really happened to Chris.
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