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Book Review of The Passenger

The Passenger
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This is an interesting read about a young woman whose life is turned upside down because of an accident in which two people were killed. Her mother's car, which someone else was driving, rammed into another vehicle which plunged into a lake drowning the occupants. She is blamed because the brothers in her mother's car say she was driving. As the community, her friends and her mother turn against her she is forced to go on the run. Her life spirals many ways as she takes on identity after identity to keep ahead of authorities.

The essence is that, first, she is a woman, and second, the brothers are the sons of a very wealthy and powerful member of the community. No one believes her. Her experiences are interesting and often hard to believe but somehow she survives until she tires of running and decides to return home and face whatever will happen to her. Well written and plotted mystery.