Finding Tessa Review

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Finding Tessa delves into the complicated life of a deliciously flawed main character, Tessa, whose love life has been a series of hookups with dangerous, angry men, aka "A#$holes" in her words. In a whirlwind romance, she meets and marries a seemingly gentle man, Jace Montgomery. Then one night, Jace comes home from work late to find clumps of hair, blood, and a broken window and his wife, Tessa, missing. The cops peg him as a suspect after an explosive outburst to a reporter, and the police investigation slowly exposes him to be a man, not who he seems. But Tessa, as the author teases, is a woman fed up at being a victim, and the unraveling of Jace's innocence fits a pattern of Tessa's past escapes. Twisted assumptions about each character's guilt and innocence untangle as hidden pasts get exposed.

I'm not surprised the publisher promotes Finding Tessa as a domestic thriller for fans of Gillian Flynn because for a majority of the book she delivers. Although the ending did not meet the excitement generated by the book's explosive beginning, I got hooked on the characters and enjoyed the ride.