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Thursday, March 31, 2022

One, two, three by Laurie Frankel

 An amazing book. That's really all you need to know.

Okay, some keywords to hook you: teenage triplets, deadly chemicals, uplifting.


Blurb:

In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does...

Everyone knows everyone in the tiny town of Bourne, but the Mitchell triplets are especially beloved. Mirabel is the smartest person anyone knows, and no one doubts it just because she can't speak. Monday is the town's purveyor of books now that the library's closed--tell her the book you think you want, and she'll pull the one you actually do from the microwave or her sock drawer. Mab's job is hardest of all: get good grades, get into college, get out of Bourne.

For a few weeks seventeen years ago, Bourne was national news when its water turned green. The girls have come of age watching their mother's endless fight for justice. But just when it seems life might go on the same forever, the first moving truck anyone's seen in years pulls up and unloads new residents and old secrets. Soon, the Mitchell sisters are taking on a system stacked against them and uncovering mysteries buried longer than they've been alive. Because it's hard to let go of the past when the past won't let go of you.

The Match by Harlan Coben

 I loved this book. A worthy sequel to "The boy from the woods". 

Characters: 5/5

Premise: 5/5

Plot: 5/5

Twist: 5/5

Dialogue and humour... you get the drift.


Blurb:

Wilde is the man who appeared one day in the Ramapo Mountains with no memory of how he got there or the mother and father who abandoned him. Now, Wilde has uncovered a major break in the case that may hold the key to revealing the truth of his origins. But the discovery links him with a present-day disappearance and presumed suicide that is much more than at first it appears.

Thursday, March 17, 2022

The last thing he told me

"The last thing he told me" by Laura Dave is a domestic suspense thriller about a woman whose husband disappears leaving behind a compromised company, a bag full of cash, his teenage daughter and a lot of unanswered questions. Gripping and heart-warming.


Blurb:

Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.

As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared.



When you are mine

"When you are mine" is a stand-alone thriller by Michael Robotham, who does an excellent job writing from a female perspective. Loved the characters, the premise, the pacing, the plot. Highly recommended.



Blurb:

Philomena McCarthy has defied the odds and become a promising young officer with the Metropolitan Police despite being the daughter of a notorious London gangster. Called to the scene of a domestic assault, she rescues a young woman, Tempe Brown, the girlfriend of a decorated detective. The incident is hushed up, but Phil has unwittingly made a dangerous enemy with powerful friends.

Determined to protect each other, the two women strike up a tentative friendship. Tempe is thoughtful and sweet and makes herself indispensable to Phil, but sinister things keep happening and something isn't quite right about the stories Tempe tells. When a journalist with links to Phil's father and to the detective is found floating in the Thames, Phil doesn't know where to turn, who to blame or who she can trust.