The Walls

The Walls
by Hollie Overton

Kristy Tucker works on death row, she works in publicity, arranging media interviews with the inmates on death row and answers media questions after an inmate is put to death.  It's a hard job, she doesn't care for it, but it pays the bills.  Kristy has a teenage son and an ailing father that she takes care of.  

One day Kristy meets Lance, he seems perfect, she falls in love and they get married.  Things soon change after that.  He is brutal and mean, snapping at her at the smallest things.  She never knows when she will do something wrong.  He has charmed everyone else and no one knows this side of him.  He is threatening to harm her son or her father if she were to leave him.

One of the inmates picks up on the sparkle having left her eyes and that a few weeks ago she was holding her ribs.  He mentions an idea of getting rid of him and the idea starts to grow in Kristy's mind.  Lance is a monster and she starts seeing the only choice is to murder him.  Can she learn from the mistakes that others have made and pull off the perfect crime?

I really enjoyed this one.  When reading a book, I want to like the main character and be rooting for them.  I liked Kristy.  She was in a terrible situation and there had to have been someone, such as the police, to turn to for help.  However, I wanted her to be able to pull this off and get rid of this scum bag.