The best word I can think of to describe this book is quirky. What you expect doesn’t happen. What you don’t expect doesn’t happen. Pretty much everything that happens is not even something I had thought of because books just don’t get written that way, right? ( )

When Melissa's daughter Tillie was small, her silly old neighbor, Hester was always around to help with childcare....but she was just a little "too much." So, as Tillie grew up, Melissa pulled away from Hester and now they just have a nodding acquaintance. Until one night, a stranger from Melissa's past shows up and the two women are bound together in a terrible crime.

This was a wild ride - an entertaining and darkly comic read. Both Hester and Melissa have secrets, but it's impossible not to feel sympathetic towards them as the author slowly reveals details about each of their lives and what brought them to this point. Highly recommend.

A note on the audiobook: There were two narrators, which I really enjoy, and both were excellent. For the woman who voiced Hester, I kept picturing Susan Boyle :) ( )