It's a kind of oxygen treatment said to improve everything from male infertility to autism, and the author has personal experience with it. On the night in question, she dropped her son off for his HBOT treatment and purportedly left to drink wine and smoke cigarettes nearby- the same cigarettes responsible for the blast that killed her son while she was absent. Elizabeth, the single mother of one of the victims, is on trial for murder. It's now a year since the night that took two lives and injured several others. The trial and the mystery are the compelling backdrop here, but this book explores so many things that it's hard to know where to begin describing it. It's a fantastic, utterly thrilling courtroom drama it's a mystery, perhaps a murder mystery and alongside these things, it's also a powerful character study that examines immigration, parenthood, grief, disability and caregiving. Miracle Creek absolutely ripped my heart out. I had to take some time away to really process this book. Perhaps she had been a monster all along. Perhaps Elizabeth had been desperate to get rid of her son, and now that he was dead, she finally had a measure of peace.
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