There’s a pattern to Frieda McFadden’s stories. It becomes quite easy to spot the bad guy and you know the ending would be justice delivered in an unconventional way (because let’s be real, in real life it’s becoming harder to get justice the correct way). The bad guys in her books are despicable and you’d almost never root for them and endings are also mostly happy. 
This book was based on that same formula. Yet everything was so much better than any of her other books! The twists after twists towards the end was chef’s kiss. I was laughing too seeing the ingenuity of McFadden building up the story like that. She left enough red herrings for us to believe that we know what the plot would be (and many could have perfectly guessed all that was going to happen) but still she dropped some good bombs! A good one!