One Fatal Mistake

One Fatal Mistake, by Tom Hunt, Penguin Random House 2019 

It's a scene we all fear - driving at night, a person appears in the middle of the road.  We react - we turn the wheel, hit the brakes, there's a thump, and then we try to recover.  But in Tom Hunt's One Fatal Mistake, there is no going back, and after 18-year old Joshua Mayo leaves the scene of an accident on a gravel road in Iowa, his life and that of his mother goes spinning into reverse.

Karen, Joshua's mother, wants their lives to move on.  Having raised her son on her own, she feels how hard the battle to survive and get on has been, and how close Joshua has come to making his life.  But when Josh's father, Teddy reappears, the situation worsens and Karen becomes desperate for a solution, some sort of salvation for her son.  The police and their investigation are not going away....

Described as a domestic suspense thriller, a "moral thought-experiment" by the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette, the book asks us, how far would you go to save a person you loved?