Secondary mystery is ludicrous

lauramcgaffey

BEWARE - SPOILER:

The only way I can explain why the secondary mystery is ludicrous is to give it all away.
A woman's baby is kidnapped from the hospital shortly after birth.
A baby's decomposed body is found months later in a river with the wrist band of the kidnapped baby.
The authorities declare it to be the woman's baby but she will not believe it.
Jump ahead to "today", 7 years later.
The woman finds a letter that was mailed from Paradise so she shows up in Stone's office and asks for help.

Rose insists on investigating.
Jump ahead to end of story.
Rose finds a woman living in Paradise who gave birth in the same hospital but her baby had lived less than a day. This is all legally documented information.
So, this mother # 2 presumably put the wrist band of the mother # 1's baby onto her own DEAD baby's body and left the hospital with mother # 1's baby and went home to Paradise.

Anyone see ALL the problems????

DEAD baby, known to be the child of mother #2 has clearly been dealt with legally with all documentation in place. Yet the hospital allowed mother #2 to walk out of the hospital with a LIVE baby. That's not at all likely.

Remember, Rose was able to get the documentation (death certificate, maybe autopsy report, etc.) that mother # 2's baby had died. Not just any baby, mother # 2's baby!

Let's go one step further.
If the hospital had allowed mother # 2 to walk out with a LIVE baby and had a DEAD baby on its hands somewhere, like down in the morgue, on which was the wrist band of mother # 1's baby, HOW in heaven's name did everyone think that ANY baby had been kidnapped?

And how in the world would mother # 2's DEAD baby have gotten from the morgue to a river many miles away.

Believe it or not, I have watched all the Jess Stone movies many, many times over the last year because they have helped me get through the death of my husband. Every time I have watched Thin Ice I have been irritated and not understood why. The other night it hit me. It's not that I don't particularly like the actress who plays the grieving mother who comes to town. It's that the whole mystery and its "solution" makes NO SENSE.

score 8/10

lauramcgaffey 5 April 2020

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