Sarah Pribek, una detective de Mineápolis especializada en desapariciones, protege la identidad de una amiga suya, Genevieve. Ambas persiguieron, encontraron y mataron a Royce Stewart, violador y asesino de la hija de Genevieve, en una trampa en la que se vio involucrado el marido de Sarah, que se encuentra en la cárcel. Nadie del departamento de policía entiende el extraño proceder de la detective, que está protegiendo a un criminal, y un inspector llega a la ciudad para investigarla. Jodi Compton retoma el personaje protagonista de 37 horas para ofrecernos una nueva e impactante historia.

The heroine is a US police officer, and her husband is in prison (and is also a police officer.) The storyline is based around a previous murder.
She is isolated, and has noone. She becomes attached to a struck-off paralysed doctor (from which comes the eponymous Sympathy).
At the same time she is fighting being done for the base murder.
Loved it to the point of considering it for a keeper. ( )

Sarah Pribek, una detective de Mineápolis especializada en desapariciones, protege la identidad de una amiga suya, Genevieve. Ambas persiguieron, encontraron y mataron a Royce Stewart, violador y asesino de la hija de Genevieve, en una trama en la que se vio involucrado el marido de Sarah, que se encuentra en la carcel. Nadie del departamento de policía entiende el extraño proceder de la detective, que está protegiendo a una criminal, y un inspector llega a la ciudad para investigarla... Una historia donde las cosas no tienen las motivaciones correctas, o al menos las que se presume que deberian ser.

Sarah Pribek is a police detective with a very complicated life. Her husband, Mike Shiloh, is in jail in Wisconsin for stealing a car which he was going to use in the commission of a revenge murder of Shorty, a crook who'd raped and killed a friend's (and Sarah's former partner's) teenage daughter. Sarah herself is under suspicion of actually killing Shorty. She didn’t do it, but she knows who did – her former partner Genevieve.

Despite not being the motherly type, Sarah has been awarded temporary guardianship of a family of five children whose famous author father is incapacitated by a stroke. Her first exposure to the family was when Marlinchen, the eldest daughter, came to Sarah to help her find her missing brother, who'd been given away by their father to a family friend in Georgia. The brother, Aidan, eventually shows up and the mystery around him grows stronger. The family is not what they seem and, the further she digs, the more dark secrets she uncovers.

Finally, she's asked to investigate an unlicensed physician operating out of the local housing projects. When she locates this person, instead of arresting him, she goes to him for treatment (since she has a fear of going to the doctor which was never really explained) and immediately begins an intense sexual relationship with him.

This story has some problems that I couldn't get past. Sarah seems to have no sense of right and wrong. She's totally willing to protect Genevieve, even at the risk of her career, yet completely writes off her husband Shiloh. Her involvement with the Hennessy family was far-fetched. The story line around Cicero is just not sensible.

Sarah Pribek is an interesting character and it seems Compton has the ability to write a suspenseful and intriguing series of books. I hope she pulls it all together with the next one. ( )