What Remains by Wendy Walker

This book was purchased for Traveling With T’s listening while walking time.

What Remains

Summary: She saved his life. Now he‘ll never let her go.

Detective Elise Sutton is drawn to cold cases. Each crime is a puzzle to solve, pulled from the past. Elise looks for cracks in the surface and has become an expert on how murderers slip up and give themselves away. She has dedicated her life to creating a sense of order, at work with her ex-marine partner; at home with her husband and two young daughters; and within, battling her own demons. Elise has everything under control, until one afternoon, when she walks into a department store and is forced to make a terrible choice: to save one life, she will have to take another.

Elise is hailed as a hero, but she doesn’t feel like one. Steeped in guilt, and on a leave of absence from work, she’s numb, even to her husband and daughters, until she connects with Wade Austin, the tall man whose life she saved. But Elise soon realizes that he isn’t who he says he is. In fact, Wade Austin isn’t even his real name. The tall man is a ghost, one who will set off a terrifying game of cat and mouse, threatening Elise and the people she loves most.

Traveling With T’s Thoughts:

I absolutely loved All Is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker and ever since then, have kept my eyes out for more books by her.

And I have truly enjoyed all the other books by Wendy that I’ve read, but What Remains….. well, it’s just ok.

For example, we find out the bad person pretty early in the book. Which is ok, I guess, but the how we found out just kinda made me go “hmmmmmm… what?”

Elise, our main character, is a DETECTIVE and I get that she’s traumatized by events earlier in the book; but she was making some choices that she shouldn’t have been making.

Also, I really feel like too much of the book was spent focused on her marriage. How good it was till how it had evolved because of choices her husband had made. I don’t love it when women characters are constantly propping up their men. If he’s as good as you act like he is, then it will show.

Overall, this book was just average. I expected something much better and will continue to check out books by her and hope for a return to her earlier style of better books.

*This book was purchased by Traveling With T for walking while listening time. All thoughts and opinions are mine alone.*