Review: REBECCA STONE IS A SURVIVOR AND A SUCCESS STORY
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 15, 2013
Rebecca Stone works as a financial reporter for an LA paper.  She is engaged to a terrific guy, Josh, and they have a comfortable relationship.  And then things change.Rebecca sees her former love, Andrew, then a professor she knows is murdered and finally she is asked to become one of the people investigating the murder on behalf of Wharton Business School.  Rebecca went to Wharton and still feels connected to the school.The investigation into the murder is to make sure that there are no connections from the murdered Wharton professor to some unseemly business about Wharton.  I am not sure I think that Wharton would worry much about anything.  That is such an iconic business school, it would seem to be impervious to anything as minor as murder.Rebecca starts the investigation by going back to Wharton with Andrew.  The investigation takes many different directions, and there are many different possibilities.  The professor who was murdered was not well liked by anyone.  During the trip back to Wharton, it is evident that there is a good ol' boy network which is very strong at the school and among many of the faculty and graduates.  It is something that irritates Rebecca very much.The mystery is well developed and the clues are viable.  Rebecca finds help in her investigation from Andrew, but also from others she meets along the way.  I enjoyed that mystery very much.The secondary story is about Rebecca's history.  She has survived a very traumatic event in her time at Wharton, she has survived a shattered heart, and she has changed her life in order to become more involved with her Jewish religion.  She and Josh live a Kosher life and it seems to have given Rebecca a good sense of place and history.  It is a very interesting part of her story.During the book each of the aspects of Rebecca's life are addressed and as the book progresses, she moves forward on many levels.  One of those levels is learning to live with and deal with PTSD.Mystery is the overriding theme of the book, but the other layers make this book a very interesting story.  I look forward to finding other books in the Rebecca Stone series.Disclaimer:  I won this book in a contest.  Nothing was asked except that I give an honest review.  The thoughts expressed are my own.