A review by kategci
Loyalty by Ingrid Thoft

3.0

I received an ARC from the publisher as part of Penguin Selects Summer 2013: What the World Will be Reading. This is a debut novel about a female private detective, Fina Ludlow who is employed by her family's law firm. Her three brothers and her father are all attorneys at this cut-throat 24 hour a day law practice in Boston. Her brother Rand's wife is missing and few people seem concerned. Fina is to find her sister-in-law without involving the police. While parts of Fina's personality and character reminded me of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum, this book is much darker and the characters are much more serious. Fina's parents are pretty awful as parents and it really seems to be about the money with the whole family. The disappearance is eventually solved, but family secrets are revealed with trauma and drama which seemingly effects the whole Ludlow family. This is possibly the first in a series with Fina Ludlow and I would read the next to see what happens to her and her family.