Becky's Great Book Reviews Find Me by Alafair Burke

Find Me by Alafair Burke starts off with a bang. A woman is found after a major car accident, injured but alive and with zero identification. She has a rare and complete amnesia, called dissociative fugue, where she remembers nothing. Nothing about the accident and nothing about her entire life preceding the accident.

The story picks up fifteen years later, where she has adopted the name of the town where she crashed (Hope, after Hopewell, New Jersey) and lives the life of a completely manufactured identity. The woman who found her, Lindsay, has become a good friend, a mentor and guardian angel to Hope.

After a decade and a half in the small town of Hopewell, she decides to move to East Hampton, New York to find herself. Hope secures a job as an assistant to a realtor, until she goes missing one night while staging a home.

Lindsay makes it her mission to find her good friend, and she learns that a blood sample found at the house in East Hampton matches one found years ago in the home of a serial killer victim in Wichita, Kansas.

Here is where the plot becomes more complicated. There is a lot to keep track of and a lot of characters. It's not insurmountable, but it took effort. Also, there was something about the characters that didn't quite connect for me. There was a good romantic twist and then a good twist at the very end, and that's what saved it for this reader. Find Me by Alafair Burke gets three stars out of five from this blogger.