What Happened to the Bennetts

4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars | 17,185 ratings

Price: 1.99

Last update: 01-21-2025


About this item

From #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline comes a pulse-pounding new novel.

Your family has been attacked, never again to be the same.
Now you have to choose between law…and justice.

     Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter’s field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them, on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific flash of violence changes his life forever.
 
Later that awful night, Jason and his family receive a visit from the FBI. The agents tell them that the carjackers were members of a dangerous drug-trafficking organization—and now Jason and his family are in their crosshairs.
 
The agents advise the Bennetts to enter the witness protection program right away, and they have no choice but to agree. But WITSEC was designed to protect criminal informants, not law-abiding families. Taken from all they know, trapped in an unfamiliar life, the Bennetts begin to fall apart at the seams. Then Jason learns a shocking truth and realizes that he has to take matters into his own hands.
 
Sometimes justice is a one-man show.

Top reviews from the United States

  • T Ellis
    5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty darn good
    Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2024
    I chose this rating because the book kept a good pace and action. I only put the book down when life interrupted. I hope you enjoy it as well.
  • Faith
    4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty suspenseful and multi-layered
    Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2024
    Was a bit longwinded at times but overall a decent unraveling of the mystery. Party predictable and sometimes silly (E.g.: oh no, our friends are going to go nuts on facebook not knowing what's happened to us! I mean, ok, so what). Mostly a gripping read, though. The author did a good job weaving myriad complexities that tie together to meet at one place.
  • len edwards
    5.0 out of 5 stars great read
    Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2024
    This book follows a family who seemingly has everything, beautiful children, business owners, big home, many friends. On one dreadful night they lose everything. This page turner follows the family as they struggle to fight their way back to the life they lost, but will the family remain intact? Will corruption or justice win? Many unexpected twist and turns that keeps you reading.
  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars The worst horrors are the ones that really can happen.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2024
    Every parent's worst nightmare would seem to be the loss of a child, but the real horrors happen afterwards. Scottoline brings us into the beating heart of a family facing every loss, betrayal, and disillusionment, then learning how to go on. A seemingly random carjacking gone wrong reveals links to organized crime, corrupt government officials, and the witness protection program. The family members face their crucible and become who they must be to survive, forcing the reader to see them as real people, not just characters in a book. The story unfolds, layer by layer, each event pulling the reader along for the bloody ride, to a memorable conclusion. Very well done!
  • Debbie S.
    3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, but ...
    Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2024
    Entertaining, if you suspend all belief.
  • ronni
    4.0 out of 5 stars mostly good!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2024
    Sometimes a little slow and confusing! Very heartwarming at the end! I feel like I did get to know the Bennetts! I especially like the dogs and Ethan!
  • Maggie Deaton
    5.0 out of 5 stars A heart wrenching story of corruption on all levels, murder, and heartbreak within families....
    Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2022
    While I am quite an eclectic reader of a number of genres, I have not been enamoured of legal/ law enforcement novels since the early days of Grisham and Baldacci... The later novels have been a bit heavy on procedure and light on character development, interaction, and empathy to my way of thinking. Well, Lisa Scottoline blows the lid off all those in this story of a happy family who has their life ripped wide open by a car jacking and shooting returning home from a high school sporting event with their family.... I cried several times while reading this book and became angry at some of the heavy handed injustices dealt out to the central characters. Be prepared to meet corrupt politicians, crooked law enforcement, "good bad guys", " bad good guys", and ordinary people who are true heroes.... I laughed, I cried, and I felt a gamut of emotions for these characters as they truly lived and breathed within this story. I will be following Lisa Scottoline's novels for a while in the hopes this trend continues as I thoroughly enjoyed this outstanding and emotional novel! Bravo, Ms. Scottoline!
  • Gilbert L. Broussard
    5.0 out of 5 stars Lisa tell a great story..
    Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2024
    I’ve read a number of her books and have never been disappointed. Page turner. Couldn’t put it down.

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