I Did Not Kill My Husband

I Did Not Kill My Husband by Linda Keir is a story about a woman named Cara Campbell who is convicted of murdering her husband, Karl. Cara claims she’s innocent, but the jury convicted her of hitting her husband over the head with a hammer while they were glamping. Cara, a social media influencer, is bashed over the head herself on social media after she is convicted. When Cara and several other inmates are being transported, they are in an accident, and Cara escapes into the wilderness.

What I enjoyed about this book was the storyline that kept moving forward with Cara. What would she do next? Whom would she meet? Would she get caught before finding out what really happened the day her husband was murdered?

The book is written in alternating point-of-view chapters, however. One point of view is that of Cara’s. The other point of view is that of the sheriff, Jordan Burke. I felt that all the chapters written from the sheriff’s perspective were completely unnecessary and bogged down the book with boring details. The book could have been half as long, yet the story would still be just as good.

I’m assuming that since the author is a team of two people, one wrote one series of chapters and the other wrote the other series. Although I enjoy books with different points of view, this one just didn’t do it for me. The ending was also very anticlimatic.