Max tells David that she views herself as a “one-woman wrecking ball,” which gives her something in common with Ivy, who by all accounts was a cyber-bullying mean girl whose actions wreaked havoc on friends and family alike. I force myself into situations, I dominate people, I push and push for answers until people simply give up fighting me. “And one of those problems is that I don’t belong. Because if I couldn’t solve the problem, it would remind me that I can’t solve my own problems.

I picked cases I felt I could solve, and even when they weren’t easy, I didn’t let go. I always knew it deep down, because I made everyone’s tragedies my tragedy. “I realized,” Max continued, “that part of my drive stems from the fact that I’m searching for answers for others because I have no answers for myself. There are a lot of suspects who look “good” for the crime, but Max didn’t get where she is by being satisfied with the superficial. It’s obvious to her that the only person who has truly mourned her passing is Tommy, who has been banished from the family because his stepmother thinks he’s the one who killed Ivy. Max soon realizes there’s a lot more going on than a simple case of “Did she fall, or was she pushed?” in the case of Ivy’s death. Convinced that there’s a story in the cold case, Max heads for Corte Madera, California, with her best friend and colleague, David Kane, in search of answers and fodder for the next episode of her hit show, Maximum Exposure.

When Ivy Wallace’s stepbrother Tommy reaches out to Maxine “Max” Revere, a journalist-turned-television star, his simple plea for help touches her heart. Poisonous by Allison Brennan is the third book in the Max Revere series, where Max answers the plea of a heartbroken and developmentally disabled stepbrother of a recently deceased girl, investigating an apparent suicide that looks more and more like murder.Ī teenage girl is dead, and after more than a year, the case has gone nowhere.

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