Lucy lost her mother at a young age, so when she gets engaged to Ollie, she dreams of having a close, loving relationship with Diana, her mother-in-law to be. But, while Diana is well-respected in the community and established a nonprofit to help new refugees, she is very cold (albeit polite) to Lucy. She isn’t mean, necessarily, more unaware — from emphasizing the borrowed part of the something borrowed item she lends Lucy for the … Read More “The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth” »
Category: Mystery
I had a lot of fun reading this book — couldn’t put it down — and then I got to the ending. Womp womp. Amber and Nick have separated and decided to sell the home that his mother, Barb, sold to them a few years earlier to make into a home for themselves and their two children. Now that their marriage has fallen apart, Amber wants to sell quickly so she can move on with … Read More “The Open House by Sam Carrington” »
This was a thriller that attempted to deliver two big reveals at the end of the book, but both of them were obvious much earlier on, which was definitely a letdown. DS Alison Hegarty is called to the scene of an accident? a crime? She’s not sure, but there’s definitely a dead body underneath a balcony at Monica and Ed’s expensive estate. And there are at least a dozen possible suspects, all of them members … Read More “The Push by Claire McGowan” »
Paige Northwood is a freelance BSL (British Sign Language) interpreter who is brought in by the police after a 15-year-old deaf student (Leon) goes missing on an overnight school camping trip. Also missing is the head teacher, Steve, who is found a short time later, murdered. The police — along with Paige — are desperate to find Leon, but the other residential students and teachers are keeping secrets and slowing down the investigation. I know … Read More “Silent Night by Nell Pattison” »
The Girl Who Never Came Home really reads more like YA than literary fiction and the tagline of it being a “gripping page turner’ might have been a bit of an oversell, but the overall story was good. Sixteen-year-old Zoe (daughter of Lydia and baby sister to Jessie) goes away for a weekend at school camp and disappears sometime between lights out and breakfast. It doesn’t take very long for searchers to discover her body. … Read More “The Girl Who Never Came Home by Nicole Trope” »