Plot Holes and Loose Ends!!!!!

I am angry.  Last night I finished Black Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin.  It was a page-turner for sure!  I could not put it down.  Once I finished it, I put it down.  Hard.  Slammed it.  So hard my husband jumped.  There were holes all over the plot like the Swiss I'm using in his lunch wraps this week.  So many loose ends you could trip over them.  What. The. French. Toast?!?!?! 

Tessie was teenager when she was abducted from her usual jogging path.  She was found, barely alive, in a ditch on a nearby farm with three other dead young women.  A witness claimed to see a large black man leaving the area at the time she would have been thrown there.  A quick trial, white girl accuses black man of abduction/torture/rape, and the accused is sentenced to death.

Fast forward fifteen years.  Terrell has exhausted all of his appeals.  His execution is rapidly approaching.  Several groups, from those who proclaim his full innocence to those who feel he was railroaded due to race to those who are simply anti-death penalty, beg Tessie, now Tessa and mother to Charlie, to reconsider her testimony as a teen. 

Tessa has been keeping a secret all these years.  She does not believe Terrell is guilty.  Every few years a patch of Black-Eyed Susans, like the ones she was found in, appear near where she is living or a property important to her.  Her best friend disappeared immediately after the trial.  There have been threatening notes. 

I have to say I was surprised by finding out "whodunnit".  But at the same time, there are huge holes in the plot!  I felt like I was watching the old movie Clue.  No matter which ending you think is correct, there are problems with each.  Really, is Tessie crazy or not?  What was going on with her best friend and father?  How does she have such a great relationship with Charlie's absentee military father?  Why does the author feel the need to bring up tampons so many times?

Readable, but not a recommend.

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