Gretchen White, was like no other character I have ever read. The reason I enjoyed this book so much was the main character, Dr. But, If I had to rank her books, this one would be my favorite.

If Viola is a scapegoat, then who really did it? And what are they hiding? To find the truth, Gretchen must enter a void that is not only dark and cold-blooded, but also frighteningly familiar.Ĥ.0 stars- “A Familiar Sight” is the third book I have read by Brianna Labuskes and is also the third time I have given a 4 star rating to one of her books. But Gretchen might be seeing something in Viola no one else does: herself. Amid stories of childhood horrors and Viola’s cruel manipulations, the bad seed has already been found guilty by a rapt public. Remorseless teenager Viola Kent is accused of killing her mother. When a high-profile new case lands on Shaughnessy’s desk, it seems open and shut. Shaughnessy still thinks Gretchen got away with murder.

She’s helped solve enough prominent cases for detective Patrick Shaughnessy that her own history is often overlooked: Gretchen is an admitted sociopath once suspected of killing her aunt.

Gretchen White is a specialist in antisocial personality disorders and violent crimes. It could have been cut way down, eliminating all these narratives explaining thoughts and behaviors and been a much better, shorter, more engaging and harder to put down novel.A shocking murder carries echoes of the past for a psychologist in a startling novel of suspense by a Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author. Tess, Reed, Claire, and Ainsley's story grew clouded by this, and their tale was what kept me reading the book. Explaining she would or wouldn't say or do something as pertaining to her diagnosis as a sociopath became tedious. She rambled on too many occasions defining the characteristics of empaths, sociopaths, and psycopaths and where they fall on spectrums of behaviors. Gretchen White annoyed most of the time, and hinted that we should feel sorry for her because she'd been falsely accused of murder as a child, but then she'd never admit that to be fact. The timeline jumped around instead of being straight forward. The way the author chose to uncover the secrets proved distracting and meandering. The characters' real stories, once revealed, shocked, amazed, and horrified me.

I was stuck between 3 and four stars for this book.

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