Play Book Tag discussion

Kit McDeere is a home health caregiver who has lived under a heartbreaking shadow for the last 6 months. She has been blamed for the death of her mother, an ailing invalid suffering agonizing pain, who overdosed on meds that Kit had left within her mother's reach. The agency Kit works for has decided to give her another chance, sending her to care for Lenora Holt, a bedridden patient whose own infamy became a rhyme as famous as Lizzie Borden's. Lenore had been accused in 1929 with the murders of her parents as well as her sister Virginia. Kit is not happy with her assignment but is determined to do her best to care for Lenore. The invalid is only able to move her left hand, is unable to speak and is completely at the mercy of her caregiver. When Kit learns that the last caregiver disappeared in the middle of the night, her unease becomes even more heightened.

Lenore appears to indicate to Kit that the typewriter on the nearby desk is something that she can use with her one useful hand. She types the words "it wasn't me" and sets in motion a mystery that Kit is determined to solve. Kit believes that the last caregiver was murdered because she learned the truth of the 50 year old murders so she realizes she must tread carefully. When Kit herself learns the truth it is almost more than she can bear.

I had been enjoying this dark, gloomy story up until the twist presented in the last 50 pages or so. It became very confusing to me and muddled much of the story. Everything seemed to be explained much too quickly and conveniently.