Alice is just 11 when her 15-year-old brother Robinson (Rob) disappears, a runaway who she never sees again until the funeral following his suicide years later. Over the years, she has convinced her husband (Walker) and even herself that Rob wasn’t that important to her, even though, as she gives his eulogy, she realizes this was never true. In the present day, Alice is still with Walker (who is a stereotypical husband of means and … Read More “How to Bury Your Brother by Lindsey Rogers Cook” »
Category: Thriller
If you’ve ever seen the movie Sliding Doors, then you already have an idea of how this book will play out, just with a criminal defense attorney as the main character. I really wanted to like this one more than I actually did. Lila Bennett, a wildly successful criminal defense attorney, has a husband who has been depressed for years, a best friend who doesn’t know Lila is sleeping with her husband Sam, and a … Read More “The Two Lila Bennetts by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke” »
Doctor, heal thyself. Erin Cartwright is a psychiatrist at a hospital for girls who has her own troubled past. Now, the past that she has tried so hard to hide and ignore has caught up with her during a criminal case that she has been asked to advise on. This was a good psychological suspense book, predictable at times, but overall, the writing pulls you through. I liked the Erin character, even with her many … Read More “The Shadow Bird” »
I’ll start off by saying that I didn’t know this was the third book in a series when I picked it up (although it did feel like background was definitely missing,) and while that might have made the serial killer aspect of this book make more sense, the focal crime wasn’t compelling enough to stand on its own. A teenager playing hooky from school hides on a construction site to sneak a cigarette and stumbles … Read More “Hush Little Baby by Jane Isaac” »
This debut suspense/thriller novel has so many twists and turns, it’s hard to figure out what’s coming next, let alone what the final twist will be. Overall, it was a fun read and did a great job in not following the cookie cutter outline of so many thrillers out there right now. Lucy King takes her dog along with a few important possessions and flees from her abusive boyfriend in Brooklyn to a small cabin … Read More “All the Broken People by Leah Konen” »