** spoiler alert ** 
 Okay. I usually like to read Picoult on airplanes because her books are engrossing. I liked the subject/theme of this one, and the pace was quick, as usual. But I felt like the book was predictable -- unusually so for Picoult -- and I could not get over the idea that none of the characters simply asked Jacob what had happened. He is incapable of lying and yet his mother never sat him down and said Tell me what happened?! or Did you kill her? or Was she already dead when you got there?