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Review: A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight

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I read this a little bit ago and it was such an addictive read! A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight  Released May 2020 Thriller   |   Goodreads   |   Amazon   Source: Library Loan Big Little Lies meets Presumed Innocent in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, in which a woman’s brutal murder reveals the perilous compromises some couples make—and the secrets they keep—in order to stay together. Lizzie Kitsakis is working late when she gets the call. Grueling hours are standard at elite law firms like Young & Crane, but they’d be easier to swallow if Lizzie was there voluntarily. Until recently, she’d been a happily underpaid federal prosecutor. That job and her brilliant, devoted husband Sam—she had everything she’d ever wanted. And then, suddenly, it all fell apart. No. That’s a lie. It wasn’t sudden, was it? Long ago the cracks in Lizzie’s marriage had started to show. She was...

The Nowhere Child by Christian White

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A woman's life is turned upside down when a stranger tells her she is not who she thinks she is. What?! You know I love this stuff and this is a great secrets book! The Nowhere Child by Christian White Released February 2018 Thriller  |   Goodreads   |   Amazon   Source: Library Borrow Kimberly Leamy is a photography teacher in Melbourne, Australia. Twenty-six years earlier, Sammy Went, a two-year old girl vanished from her home in Manson, Kentucky. An American accountant who contacts Kim is convinced she was that child, kidnapped just after her birthday. She cannot believe the woman who raised her, a loving social worker who died of cancer four years ago, crossed international lines to steal a toddler. On April 3rd, 1990, Jack and Molly Went’s daughter Sammy disappeared from the inside their Kentucky home. Already estranged since the girl’s birth, the couple drifted further apart as time passed. Jack did his best to raise and prot...

The Stranger Inside by Laura Benedict Book Review

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Ugh, this heroine! She must be read to be believed, lol. The Stranger Inside by Laura Benedict Released February 2018 Thriller  |   Goodreads  | Amazon   Source: Library Borrow A chilling, suspenseful psychological drama in the tradition of Shari Lapena and Liane Moriarty, by the Edgar and ITW Thriller Award nominated author Laura Benedict. What if you came home to find a stranger living in your house? Kimber Hannon imagines she has complete control over her life, until she comes home to find that her house key no longer opens her front door. A man is living in her house. A stranger, who presents a lease bearing Kimber's own signature. When she confronts him, he gets close enough to whisper, I was there. I saw what you did. Those words reveal a connection to Kimber's distant past, before her sister's sudden death more than twenty years ago. Her fear abruptly shifts. This trespasser knows her somehow. He isn't after anything as simple as her mo...