Clare Mackintosh is a British author and former police officer..
She became a full-time writer in 2011. And in 2014 publishedI Let You Go, a best seller.
It’s intense.
Well written.
There are plot twists that surprised me.
Jenna Gray has rented a spare cottage in a small Welsh town on the coast.
She’s timid and doesn’t interact with many people, just her landlord and a woman at a local shop. She’s running away from the death of a child.
In parallel, Detective Inspector Ray Stevens and a female rookie are working on the case of a young boy killed in a hit-and-run right in front of his mother.
It’s yet another hit psychological thriller — and I’m starting to get sick of psychological thrillers. 😀
BUT this is a good one.
None of This is True refers to unreliable narrators. The story will keep you guessing.
Josie Fair and Alix Summer share the same birthday. Born in the same hospital on the same day, and now, at the age of forty five, they share a curiosity about how their lives might have turned out differently.
Bumping into one another by accident, Alix (a podcaster) strikes on an idea for a series called …
“Hi I’m Your birthday Twin”
She begins to interview Josie — who tells of a very damaged upbringing and family life.
It’s an intense book. Dark and sad.
Kirkus Reviews noted that the book was “hard to read but hard to look away from.”
It follows four women who were part of a girl group named Girls5eva, which was briefly popular around the year 2000 before fading into one-hit-wonder status.
Now unfulfilled in their various lives, they reunite to try to find musical success again.
I quite like Daniel Breaker as Scott, Dawn’s husband. He plays the one normal person in the show.
He decides to confront his fears and moves to his vacation house on Dark Score Lake, known as “Sara Laughs”.
On his first day, he meets Kyra, a 3-year-old girl and her young widowed mother, 20-year-old Mattie Devore.
Mattie’s father-in-law is Max Devore, an elderly rich man who will do anything to gain custody of his granddaughter. He was the bad guy when I quit the book.
Swiping Hearts (2023) is a short story by one of my favourite writers.
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called upon to tackle a crime unlike any they’ve ever faced.
An unknown subject is using his formidable skills to work his way into the lives—and hearts—of his victims, all with the goal of utterly destroying them psychologically and emotionally . . . for his pure pleasure.
Very mountainous; the coastline heavily indented by dozens of fjords surrounded by steep hills. These indentations make roads very circuitous. Sounds like the west coast of Norway.
Total total population in 2020 was 7,115.
CHRIS BURKARD put together a gravel tour of the region he called WESTFJORDS WAY.
575 Mi.(925 KM)
40% unpaved
pushing your bike about 10% of the time
Biggest worries for me riding solo are the weather — “Riding in fjords guarantees a headwind and a tailwind. The wind can be so severe that it will push you off your bike …” — and the remoteness. Not many bike shops or resupply points.
BUT I downloaded Lael’s map from the adventure to Komoot. So I’m ready to try it if I get the chance one day.
In a perfect world where everything goes right 😀 … I might even try it summer 2024 as part of my planned Norway & Faroe Islands cycling tour.
Liesl Weiss, the protagonist, was simply not a character I could cheer for.
The resolution no kind of surprising twist.
I downloaded this mystery because it was set in a library. And Jurczyk herself is a librarian at the University of Toronto and worked in its rare books library as a graduate student.
Well … there is humour, mainly around quirky Ida — some sort of online detective hacker. She’s terminally ill so doesn’t much worry about anything she does.
The plot is confusing.
Opening Shot: “1994.” The camera pushes in on a house on a lake. SWAT teams arrive in rafts and put up their weapons.
The Gist: The SWAT teams are there to invade the house, in the French Alps village of Levionna, which is the headquarters of a cult led by Caleb Johansson (Stefano Cassetti). Johansson ends up being the only survivor after a mass suicide …
He’s America’s Best Lawyer Until He’s Its #1 Murder Suspect
Can this actually be James Patterson?
It reads to me more like John Grisham.
Excellent.
Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries. In his sharp suits and polished Oxford shoes, Penney is Biloxi, Mississippi’s #1 Lawyer and top local celebrity.
Just as Penney notches his latest courtroom victory, his wife is scandalously killed. He spirals into a legal and personal losing streak, damaging his reputation and ruining his career. …
Perhaps this 2024 novel had a LOT of influence from co-author Nancy Allen.
She practiced law in the Ozarks for fifteen years as Assistant Attorney General and Assistant Prosecutor. She served on the faculty at Missouri State University for sixteen years, teaching law classes.
Rick McCharles 