The Execution of Noa P. Singleton

The Execution of Noa P. Singleton (2013) by Elizabeth L. Silver. Noa P. Singleton is on death row, six months away from her scheduled execution, when Marlene Dixon, the mother of her victim, comes to visit her in prison. To Singleton's surprise, Dixon offers to ask for clemency for her because she has come to believe that the death penalty is wrong. Hanging over the novel is the question, "What really happened?" Singleton is very reluctant to discuss the day when she killed Dixon's daughter, and she waits until the end of the novel to describe it for her readers. I found the big reveal to be rather anticlimactic, and the whole novel, while it was readable, left me feeling a bit let down. Grade: B