Category: Domestic Suspense

Local Woman Missing ~ Book Review

3/20/2021

Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica is a Psychological Thriller novel.

Publisher: Park Row Books | Release Date: May 18, 2021

You can read more about the book at the following places, or pre-order your copy at:

Goodreads | Amazon CA | Amazon COM | KOBO | Chapters-Indigo

Description:

People don’t just disappear without a trace…

Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold.

Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they’ll find…

In this smart and chilling thriller, master of suspense and New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica takes domestic secrets to a whole new level, showing that some people will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried.

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The Party ~ Book Review

4/14/2020

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The Party by Robyn Harding is a psychological thriller, full of domestic suspense.

You can read more about the book at the following places, or order your copy at:

Goodreads | Amazon CA | KOBO | Chapters-Indigo

Description:

In this stunning and provocative domestic drama about a sweet sixteen birthday party that goes horribly awry, a wealthy family in San Francisco finds their picture-perfect life unraveling, their darkest secrets revealed, and their friends turned to enemies.

One invitation. A lifetime of regrets.

Sweet sixteen. It’s an exciting coming of age, a milestone, and a rite of passage. Jeff and Kim Sanders plan on throwing a party for their daughter, Hannah—a sweet girl with good grades and nice friends. Rather than an extravagant, indulgent affair, they invite four girls over for pizza, cake, movies, and a sleepover. What could possibly go wrong?

But things do go wrong, horrifically so. After a tragic accident occurs, Jeff and Kim’s flawless life in a wealthy San Francisco suburb suddenly begins to come apart. In the ugly aftermath, friends become enemies, dark secrets are revealed in the Sanders’ marriage, and the truth about their perfect daughter, Hannah, is exposed.

Harkening to Herman Koch’s The Dinner, Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap, and Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies, The Party takes us behind the façade of the picture-perfect family, exposing the lies, betrayals, and moral lapses that neighbors don’t see—and the secrets that children and parents keep from themselves and each other.

About the Author:

Robyn Harding is the internationally bestselling author of The Arrangement, Her Pretty Face, and The Party which was a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel. She has also written four novels of contemporary women’s fiction, a young adult novel, and a comedic memoir with an environmental focus. Robyn is the screenwriter and executive producer of the independent film, The Steps, which premiered at TIFF and was the closing gala film at the Miami International Film Festival. She lives in Vancouver, BC with her family.

To learn more about Robyn Harding, visit her website HERE. Or you can follow her on Instagram: @rhardingwriter or on Facebook at Author Robyn Harding.

My Thoughts:

THE PARTY by Robyn Harding reminded me of when I had teenagers roaming through my house. We had rules! Did they break them? Not often, but they did once in a while. Parents think they have control over their kids when they say, “Sure, you can have some friends over, but no boys, no drugs and no alcohol.” They are teenagers, so of course, they are going to do at least one of those things (if not all three things).

This novel dives into a sweet sixteen birthday party that goes wrong for one wealthy family in San Francisco. A few dark secrets emerge, revealing ugly aftermath of friends becoming enemies… and I’m not just talking about teenaged girls. Rich people are always good for hiding lies, betraying people they supposedly love, and tons of moral judgment falling between the cracks. This is one family who probably wishes the party never happened.

This novel is a fast read, predictable but fun to read. I’m easily reminded how this story could have happened to anyone (including me). This is the perfect book to lose yourself in other people’s problems and forget about your own for a few hours.

My Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars

(because I love reading psychological thrillers that have tense domestic drama between parents and their kids, books about messy marriages and double-crossing gossipy teenagers, and books with meddling characters showing off their bad behaviour everywhere they go. You just never know who is telling the truth or who is spewing the easy lies).

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The Good Liar ~ Book Review

4/15/2018

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The Good Liar by Catherine McKenzie is a thought-provoking psychological suspense story, published on April 3, 2018 by Simon and Schuster, Canada.

Read more or purchase your own copy from any of these locations:

Goodreads | Amazon CA | Barnes & Noble | Chapters.Indigo.ca

Description:

Can you hide a secret with the whole world watching?

When an explosion rips apart a Chicago building, the lives of three women are forever altered.

A year later, Cecily is in mourning. She was supposed to be in the building that day. Instead, she stood on the street and witnessed it going down, with her husband and best friend inside. Kate, now living thousands of miles away, fled the disaster and is hoping that her past won’t catch up with her. And Franny, a young woman in search of her birth mother, watched the horror unfold on the morning news, knowing that the woman she was so desperate to reconnect with was in the building.

Now, despite the marks left by the tragedy, they all seem safe. But as its anniversary dominates the media, the memories of that terrifying morning become dangerous triggers. All these women are guarding important secrets. Just how far will they go to keep them?

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The Marriage Lie Book Review

2/8/2017

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The Marriage Lie
by Kimberly Belle

Paperback: 352 pages
Published by: Mira Books (a Division of Harlequin) on December 27, 2016

Available from: Amazon.ca Amazon.com Indigo/Chapters Barnes & Noble

Description:

Even the perfect marriage has its dark side…

Iris and Will's marriage is as close to perfect as it can be: a large house in a nice Atlanta neighborhood, rewarding careers and the excitement of trying for their first baby. But on the morning Will leaves for a business trip to Orlando, Iris's happy world comes to an abrupt halt. Another plane headed for Seattle has crashed into a field, killing everyone on board, and according to the airline, Will was one of the passengers on this plane.

Grief-stricken and confused, Iris is convinced it all must be a huge misunderstanding. But as time passes and there is still no sign of Will, she reluctantly accepts that he is gone. Still, Iris needs answers. Why did Will lie about where he was going? What is in Seattle? And what else has he lied about? As Iris sets off on a desperate quest to find out what her husband was keeping from her, the answers she receives will shock her to her very core.

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Local Woman Missing ~ Book Review

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The Good Liar ~ Book Review

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