That Night

From Booklist We meet Toni Murphy just as shes about to be paroled from a Canadian penitentiary. When she was 18, she and her boyfriend, Ryan, were convicted of killing Tonis younger sister. Flashbacks to the months before her sister was killed and the years she spent in prison help the reader understand the woman Toni is today and why she is torn between clearing her name and keeping her head down and avoiding a parole violation. Moving back to her hometown, Toni knows that the truth behind her sisters murder is just out of reach. Shes certain, though, that its not a coincidence that her sister died shortly after befriending Shauna, a prototypical mean girl who made a hobby out of harassing Toni all through high school. Stevens does an excellent job conveying Tonis near-constant state of uneaseas a victim of teenage bullying, a prison inmate protesting her innocence, a parolee whos prohibited from coming in contact with the people who could clear her name