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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.
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.