This well-meaning effort to highlight the opioid crisis spins out of control with clichés, shallow characters, and a preachy narrative.
Emma’s plan soon goes awry as the bodies pile up while her inexperience puts herself and her loved ones in danger. The weak plot spins on Emma’s rationalization that in trying to save Josh she’s also helping those who truly are in pain, but whose medication has been cut back because of government crackdowns. She’s the mother of a precocious kindergartener, married to her soulmatea loyal and loving police detectiveand has a rewarding career as a doctor at the local hospital. Meanwhile, Nate, who knows nothing of Emma’s scheme, volunteers to work with the DEA to find the source of opioids invading their town of Skamania, Wash., in the hope of a promotion. After they’re turned down for loans, Emma believes the only way to raise the cash is to sell opioids to addicts and forged prescription orders to drug dealers. Heartrending, heart-pounding and fearless to the last word. Her third novel, Do No Harm, is a riveting thriller which braids the complexities of modern parenting with the pressures of finding a moral center in a devastating opioid crisis. Then Josh is diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia, and their insurance won’t cover his costly treatment. Nobody writes motherhood like Christina McDonald. In this so-so domestic thriller from McDonald ( Behind Every Lie), happily married physician Emma Sweeney and her police detective husband, Nate, dote on their precocious five-year-old son, Josh.
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