When Lila comes to awareness she is standing in a courtroom, she quickly comes to realize she is a lawyer, given the impossible task of defending a man on trial for committing a terrorist attack. She doesn't remember how she got there, or honestly anything about her life prior to that very moment, and she must succeed in ensuring he is found not guilty because someone has threatened her. Someone has threatened her daughter, a daughter she doesn't remember ever having or living a life with.
I love me a good twisty thriller, especially if the author knows how to write in such a way that the MC and narrator is finding things out at the same time we are. This is often done using the amnesia trope, but to be honest, it's very rarely done well. Enter The Trials of Lila Dalton. The only other time I can remember where it was this well done was with The Last Murder at the End of the world. The only thing that I disliked is that it left me with an unreliable narrator which I really have a hard time with.
What worked for Lila Dalton that didn't for The Last Murder was that the plot was easy to follow. You weren't being thrown off kilter when a new situation/event happened. It all flowed pretty seamlessly. I highly recommend this to those that enjoyed The Last Murder at the End of the World or who love a good who dunnit with an unreliable narrator.
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