🌟🌟🌟🌟 “Houses remember” A gorgeously-narrated audio book, providing a sumptuous peek into the lives of two pairs of women, one in current day, and the other in 1974. In each case, the story told by one of the women is intricate, richly textured, and compelling - in particular as it…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 Interesting and suspenseful, this is my third read from this author, and one I enjoyed equally. Diana Brewer, a beautiful seventeen year old, is dead. Murdered by an unknown assailant in a small close-knit community in Vermont. In a bit of an unusually supernatural twist, we meet Diana herself,…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 An excellent thriller unravelling the tale of two young American women, friends for life, and their harrowing trip to Far North Queensland Australia - a trip of a lifetime and one that is also driven by secrets - facts hidden that will in fact come to change the entire…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A snappily paced and absorbing story that weaves around, and eventually nicely connects, the volatile world of several point-of-view characters. First, in Leavenworth Kansas, we meet Ryan, a six-foot-four high-school basketball star, who experiences a terrible crime and the crushing loss of his teen sweetheart, Alison. Five years later,…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫A gleefully sociopathic read, featuring Hannah, our first person POV narrator, who is best described as a sort of female Mr Ripley, - as emotive as a lizard, for Hannah is as self-obsessed and calculating as she is stunningly beautiful. Hannah’s curves, her glossy hair, her absolute focus, and her…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A fast read with a twisty plot, focusing on a neighborhood populated by a collection of accessible characters, each of them hiding secrets and living a life very different from which it appears. Lena Clarke, a 32 year old business owner, recently betrayed by her partner of eleven years…
🌟🌟🌟💫 A somewhat madcap mystery focusing on young women scorned, misunderstood, and betrayed, - and their search for closure. Focusing mainly on two first person POV heroines, Cass and Anna, each telling their separate story, and expanding to include a troupe of big-hearted down-on-their-luck colorful ladies, whose bbq hotdogs, poolside…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A clever and turbulent story, paced largely by: an achingly slow character-driven build; a plot-driven puzzle that surfaces early, is tweaked and dangled and kept alive with tiny tantalizingly hidden clues (very much solvable, if the reader sticks with it); and a supremely chaotic, crazily consistent ending. Our story…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟A pitch-perfect spy thriller - so well-written, evocative, and gripping that this reader could literally not put it down. (My first by this very prolific author, and I cannot wait to read more). The epitome of “spook” fiction - with all the undercover terror, subterfuge, violence, duplicity, and psychopathy one…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 Moody and evocative, this book is the very essence of a slow burn, best described, in the author’s own words, as a tantalizingly “slow simmer”, bubbling and congealing, before “morphing into a full-blown boil”. Margot, our first person POV, is a strange and disturbingly-repressed narrator. Revealing little, and concealing…