NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher and her partner J.J. Rogan are called to the Greenwich Village house of music producer Bill Whitmire when his sixteen-year-old daughter is found in her bathtub, wrists slit, bottle of wine and suicide note nearby. Ellie doesn’t understand why homicide detectives were called to the scene of an obvious suicide, but the Whitmire’s insist that Julia wouldn’t have killed herself and that her death be investigated as a homicide. At first glance, Julia seemed to be living a dream life, a townhouse in the Village where her parents were very rarely in residence, a place in one of the most prestigious Upper East Side schools and money for whatever she could want. As the detectives begin to look more closely at her life, they encounter prescription drug abuse, homeless teenagers and the anonymous blog of an abuse survivor on which threatening comments are being posted. The more Ellie and Rogan look, the more tangled the case grows and begins to involve more people than they realized, including an ex-con from upstate. Before long, Ellie is willing to admit that Julia may not have committed suicide after all and that something a long time in the making has occurred. There are many surprises in Never Tell and many threads that all connect in unexpected ways. Ellis and her boyfriend ADA Max also reach a pinnacle in their relationship from which there will be no turning back once a decision is reached. Alafair Burke never fails to write a suspenseful mystery with many twists and turns with characters to care about and a plot that constantly surprises.
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