Since the police are at a standstill in their investigation (as they always are in Brennan’s world), Max steps in to save the day while also working through her ongoing dilemma of how much to trust her boyfriend, gorgeous cop Nick Santini, who replaced her former lover, gorgeous agent Marco Lopez. She posted nastiness about everyone from one end of the Web to the other, even sparking the suicide of a young woman who-when her sex tape surfaced, courtesy of the rich, spoiled Ivy-couldn’t handle the gossip. Much despised by everyone who knew her, Ivy was the town cyberbully. Along with her BFF and bodyguard, gay former Special Forces soldier David Kane, she sets her sights on a small town called Corte Madera, where a teenager named Ivy Lake went over a cliff. Max hosts a cable television news show à la Nancy Grace, only Max has red hair and more money than Queen Elizabeth. But for the first time, she wonders if this time, the truth will kill.Brennan ( No Good Deed, 2015, etc.) trots out her newest character, muckraking investigative reporter Maxine 'Max' Revere, who's back in California to solve another crime. Max believes the truth is always better than lies, that the truth is the only thing that matters to gain justice for victims and their families. If Ivy was murdered, it was exceptionally well-planned and that kind of killer could be hiding in plain sight. But the more Max learns about Tommy and his dysfunctional family, the more she thinks she's taken on an impossible task: this may be the one case she can't solve. She travels to Corte Madera, California, with her assistant David Kane and is at first pleased that the police are cooperative. This isn't the type of case Max normally takes on, but the heartbreak and simple honesty in Tommy's letter pulls her in. Tommy thinks that if someone can figure out what happened to his step-sister, everything will go back to normal, so he writes to investigative reporter Maxine Revere. With too many suspects and not enough evidence, the investigation has grown cold.

After a year, the police still have no answers: Ivy could have jumped, could have been pushed, or it could have been an accident.

He's distraught and doesn't understand why his blended family is falling apart. except her mentally-challenged eighteen-year-old step-brother, Tommy.

Teen-aged Internet bully Ivy Lake fell off a cliff and few people cared.

Poisonous by allison brennan