A lot of potential that fell flat for me in the second half. The author does best when she sticks to what she knows - the Chinese immigrant family, parenting, pressures, the trip back to visit China - well-written and believable.

*Spoiler alert* But when the author turns her attention to planning and executing a perfect murder, any fan of true crime or courtroom procedurals, is going to notice some pretty glaring issues - here's some that pop to mind without much deliberation: Ivy wipes the car of prints, which is going to raise suspicion because why would a hiker not have left any prints in his own car? Why was the hiker not dressed for hiking? Why does he seemingly not have a phone? Smashing a physical phone doesn't delete the database of all their texts that the phone carrier will have. And when did the phone last hit on a tower? Who is the woman Roux was seen out with? What does she know about Ivy? It all just seemed to be wrapped up very quickly and simply and that could have all been handled more convincingly.