Windfall

by Marilinne Cooper

A band, a bar and a baby. Or two… Myles Scupper-Adams is a musician in love with a girl he can’t have. He returns from a European backpacking trip to find he’s lost the opportunity to go to college because his well-meaning parents have spent his tuition money on adoption costs for two Chinese orphans. Instead he moves to Windfall, New Hampshire to work, but his moral compass begins to point in the wrong direction as he develops an unhealthy resentment for the “haves” of his new hometown. When a woman is found dead and Myles, the chief suspect in her murder, goes missing, his mother, Sarah Scupper, seeks her old friend Tyler Mackenzie’s assistance in tracking him down. Tyler’s newfound fascination with online dating and an obsession for tango dancing have led him to the same small village of Windfall. But Tyler’s own life changes abruptly when Chloe, apparently now his daughter-in-law, arrives in a snowstorm, alone and pregnant. Chloe’s evasive behavior regarding her present circumstances is just the beginning of a complex mystery and a series of twisted relationships that cross the river into New Hampshire and back again to West Jordan, Vermont, and include a psychopathic librarian, an alluring dance instructor and a lawless logger with a past.
A multifaceted story with a convoluted chain of intertwining events, Windfall is a page-turner of a tale that will have readers begging for the next book in the series.

259 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 25, 2017

Reviews

[Sherry · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is the first book of this series that I've read and I may be missing things because I didn't go in sequence. However, while there was lots of action in this book, especially at the end, I found it disjointed and at times random. There was not enough backstory about the characters for me to really grasp what I should think about them, and it made them quite shadowy. I didn't know enough to care about them except to note that the only true communication between characters is when they are having sex. And that happens often and seemingly without much preamble. And Tyler, the protagonist of the series, was almost tangential in this. He wandered around between characters and towns but was not really central to it.

I am sorry that I was disappointed by this book.