Thriller

My Review: 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Description:

Two women. Two flights. One last chance to disappear.

Claire Cook has a perfect life. Married to the scion of a political dynasty, with a Manhattan townhouse and a staff of ten, her surroundings are elegant, her days flawlessly choreographed, and her future auspicious. But behind closed doors, nothing is quite as it seems. That perfect husband has a temper that burns bright and he’s not above using his staff to track Claire’s every move.

What he doesn’t know is that Claire has worked for months on a plan to vanish. A plan that takes her to the airport, poised to run from it all. But a chance meeting in the airport bar brings her together with a woman whose circumstances seem equally dire. Together they make a last-minute decision.

The two women switch tickets, with Claire taking Eva’s flight to Oakland, and Eva traveling to Puerto Rico as Claire. They believe the swap will give each of them the head start they need to begin again somewhere far away. But when the flight to Puerto Rico crashes, Claire realizes it’s no longer a head start but a new life. Cut off, out of options, with the news of her death about to explode in the media, Claire will assume Eva’s identity, and along with it, the secrets Eva fought so hard to keep hidden.

My Review:

This was a novel that hooked me quickly and kept me there. It’s a fast-paced story that takes you back and forth between the two characters, their back stories woven in like a complicated quilt.

But just as you think you have the storyline worked out, how they are going to get out of their situation, the story pivots. To be honest, I can’t say too much for this review without giving anything away.

It’s well written, and this is an author I’ll definitely keep on my list.

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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58690308

Amazon: https://amzn.to/448RO5x

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My Review: 🌟🌟🌟1/2

Description:

Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t recognize friends or family, or even his own wife.

Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts–paper, cotton, pottery, tin–and each year Adam’s wife writes him a letter that she never lets him read. Until now. They both know this weekend will make or break their marriage, but they didn’t randomly win this trip. One of them is lying, and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after.

Ten years of marriage. Ten years of secrets. And an anniversary they will never forget.

My Review:

The best thing about this book were the cliff hangers at the end of each chapter. The problem was, I never really got a sense of the characters. It all just needed more depth.

The letters each anniversary were just weird. Like the author needed to give some of the background into the couple’s relationship in a quick way to keep the book moving. And that would have been fine, had it not been a summary of the year. I mean, wouldn’t the other person know what happened? It could have been used as a ‘remember when we did this….’ Or twist it to say ‘you made me feel x when you did that and I wanted to…’

But then came the twist and it all made sense.

Finally a book I thought I’d figured out but it still surprised me in the end. That’s a rare thing indeed, nowadays!  Still, I’m giving this one 3 1/2 🌟 (and maybe I’m missing something – it’s was #1 for Domestic Thrillers on Amazon for a while.)

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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58690308

Amazon: https://amzn.to/448RO5x

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My Review: 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Description:

Investigating the killing of a prisoner during a riot inside a state penitentiary, GBI investigator Will Trent is confronted with disturbing information. One of the inmates claims that he is innocent of a brutal attack for which he has always been the prime suspect. The man insists that he was framed by a corrupt law enforcement team led by Jeffrey Tolliver and that the real culprit is still out there—a serial killer who has systematically been preying on women across the state for years. If Will reopens the investigation and implicates the dead police officer with a hero’s reputation of wrongdoing, the opportunistic convict is willing to provide the information GBI needs about the riot murder.

Only days ago, another young woman was viciously murdered in a state park in northern Georgia. Is it a fluke, or could there be a serial killer on the loose?

As Will Trent digs into both crimes it becomes clear that he must solve the cold case in order to find the answer. Yet nearly a decade has passed—time for memories to fade, witnesses to vanish, evidence to disappear, and lies to become truth. But Will can’t crack either mystery without the help of the one person he doesn’t want involved: his girlfriend and Jeffrey Tolliver’s widow, medical examiner Sara Linton.

When the past and present begin to collide, Will realizes that everything he values is at stake . . .

My Review:

It took me about four chapters to get into this book, due to the number of characters to keep track of. It was confusing. But this is book #10 in a series, which means characters have already been established and I was jumping into the the mix late in the game. But I quickly became engrossed and after that, it was hard to put down.

Karin Slaughter’s novels are not for the feint of heart. They are graphic and brutal. But they are also well written with great detail.

But the problem I have in being a suspense writer is that I figured out ‘whodunit’ about a third of the way in. I know what things to look for and to be honest, I hate that when I just want to be a reader. That said, it wasn’t blatant, and how it played out was well done.

Karin Slaughter is becoming a go-to for me when I need a gritty story. And I mean graphically gritty. The woman scares the living crap out of me.

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