Close Your Eyes by Amanda Eyre Ward

2020 Key Word Challenge - September (Star, Cry, She, Window, Forever, Eye)
"W" Author

There was nothing overly remarkable about this book, it was just a well-crafted mystery. Exactly the kind of read I needed at this time after some heavy reads and living in a world of chaos.

Summary from Goodreads: For most of her life, Lauren has been certain of two things: that her mother is dead, and that her father is a murderer.

...one morning, six-year-old Lauren and eight-year-old Alex awoke after a night spent in their tree house to discover their mother’s body and their beloved father arrested for the murder.

Years later, Lauren is surrounded by uncertainty. Her one constant is Alex, always her protector, still trying to understand the unraveling of his idyllic childhood. But Lauren feels even more alone when Alex reveals that he’s been in contact over the years with their imprisoned father—and that he believes he and his sister have yet to learn the full story of their mother’s death. Then Alex disappears.