Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan are the authors of Mad Honey. Like all books written by Picoult, this one has a trial. At the trial Asher is charged with the murder of Lily, his girlfriend of 3 months who had just moved to the small town in New Hampshire four months ago to attend her senior year of high school. Ash is a popular student in the school and is captain of the hockey team. Lily, new to town, plays the cello. She meets Maya who plays the oboe. Maya introduces Lily to Ash. Ash's mother, Olivia, is a single mother. She lives in her family's farm house. She takes care of the apiary that her father started. She sells honey and honey products at the farmers market. Throughout the novel the focus turns away from Lily and Ash and onto the care of bees and the life of bees. This is a wonderful novel. There is a plot twist that comes up late in the trial and changes the trajectory of the tale to one more complicated.
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