Book Review: After All I've Done

A traumatic car accident leaves 45-year-old Diana Sparrow badly injured, the aftermath turning her into an unreliable narrator as she grapples with an anesthesia-related short-term memory loss. Unable to remember the previous couple of months of her life and smothered by the attention given by her mother-in-law Harriet, Diana's attempts to regain her health and recover her lost memory leads to unexpected revelations, causing her to suspect the accident may have been much more than what she'd thought it was. Domestic thrillers about memory loss are dime a dozen, but to give credit where it's due, author Megan Hart (writing as Mina Hardy) paces it fast enough to keep the twists and turns coming at lightning speed, coalescing the story's multiple threads to a satisfying bang. After All I've Done doesn't exactly break new ground, but spices its by-the-numbers plot with an entertaining cocktail of betrayal and explosive secrets that makes for a compelling ride from beginning to end.