The Inmate

The Inmate by Freida McFadden

This story is told from the present, with a corresponding narrative of the past. A young adult with a 10-year-old son is returning to her childhood home to live in her parent's house and work as a nurse in a nearby prison. She had got pregnant by her boyfriend when she was in high school. Later her boyfriend was convicted of murder for killing her friends and trying to kill her. This boyfriend is staying at the prison. She gets to know him and also reaquants with another childhood friend who is now an assistant principal. There are a number of twists and turns with some false imprisonment, additional murders and then the true murderer coming in place. She learns that it would have paid to actually listen to people instead of thinking she knows what is right. There were also some extreme messed up families in that small town. (Maybe even some incest?)