I liked TEAR ME APART; I didn’t love it. That makes it a three-star book. Yet it’s better than many other books I’ve rated with three stars. So this one gets four.

This book is mystery upon mystery upon mystery, etc. Maybe the biggest mystery throughout: who is really who.

It begins with two mentally unstable teenagers committed to “University Hospital.” Then the book skips years to teenage Olympic hopeful Mindy and her parents who seem like a normal little family if “normal” includes a well-known star of Colorado’s ski slopes and a devoted mother who lives for her daughter. There’s also the mother’s sister, Juliet, a doctor who is a DNA tech and lab manager for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Later we meet a widower, Zack, in faraway Tennessee, trying to solve his wife’s murder and find his kidnapped infant daughter, who would now be a teenager.

Who are they really? In the race to save the life of her niece, Juliet discovers more mysteries. And Zack’s quest leads him, along with Nashville police, to Colorado and the CBI. Mysteries are solved as more are discovered.

I enjoyed the mysteries, although a couple were pretty obvious. It was still fun to see them solved. But a book reviewer does readers a disservice when she says too much. And “too much” in this case is more than I have already said. You will enjoy TEAR ME APART like I did if I leave it for you to discover the mysteries on your own.