Finished: Apples Never Fall (Moriarty) Another good book from Moriarty that kept me entertained and reading. :-) The story of Stan and Joy Delaney, tennis obsessed since meeting in college, and their four grown children, Logan, Amy, Troy and Brooke. The Delaney's have recently closed their famous tennis academy, where all their children played, up until they didn't. None of them ever made "the big time" for various reasons, though they were all very talented. Stan Delaney did have one prodigy, Harry Haddad, who he thought he would coach to Wimbeldon. He let his adoration and faith in Harry outshine his own children. However, one day, after coaching Harry for years, Harry's father pulled him away from Stan and to another coach to take him further. This, and the fact that none of his own children ever went further, is the great disappointment of Stan's life. Meanwhile, Joy, who had been a potential champion herself, gave up her own game to raise her children and help Stan run the tennis camp. The story opens with the almost 70 year old Joy having gone missing after a cryptic text sent to her grown children. When her cell phone is found under a dresser at home, the police are called and Stan becomea a suspect in her disappearance...along with a mysterious young woman who came knocking on their door for shelter one night the October before. We get to know each of the Delaney children very well, along with their significant others, most of whom have ended up leaving their respective Delaney SO's. The siblings bicker like only competitive siblings can, but also have each other's backs when push comes to shove. They all also have the common dislike and distrust of Savannah, the young woman who has ingratiated herself into their parents' lives. Add in the fact that Harry Haddad is about to release a memoir which a few of the main characters fear the truth of, and the story grows more and more intense; especially as it seems that Joy has definitely met with foul play, and Savannah is more closely linked to the Delaney's than any one of them recognizes. It's a good story with an ending not nearly as nefarious as all the characters' imaginations, and also a good lesson in family and love and what is really more important than whether your kid is good at a sport!