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Wednesday (01/06/21):
You Will Remember Me by Hannah Mary McKinnon~ ARC from Harper Collins
Debut author Darby Kane thrills with this twisty domestic suspense novel that asks one central question: shouldn’t a dead husband stay dead?
Lila Ridgefield lives in an idyllic college town, but not everything is what it seems. Lila isn’t what she seems. A student vanished months ago. Now, Lila’s husband, Aaron, is also missing. At first these cases are treated as horrible coincidences until it’s discovered the student is really the third of three unexplained disappearances over the last few years. The police are desperate to find the connection, if there even is one. Little do they know they might be stumbling over only part of the truth….
With the small town in an uproar, everyone is worried about the whereabouts of their beloved high school teacher. Everyone except Lila, his wife. She’s definitely confused about her missing husband but only because she was the last person to see his body, and now it’s gone.
I requested this book via NetGalley after seeing quite a lot of buzz about it in the book blogging community because I didn’t want to miss out in case it was as good as people were saying it was. At the time, I didn’t know it was a debut novel. Was it? I’ll answer this question in a bit. I will say, upfront, is this will be very vague because there is no way I want to give even a smidgen of a spoiler.
Aaron is a bit controlling when it comes to his wife Lila. That is, until the day she finds some shocking and horrendous videos that she found on a phone that he thought he had hidden from her. From that moment on, things in the Ridgefield home change. Change so much that Aaron goes missing. But it isn’t Lila who reports this. It’s the Principal at the school where Aaron is a teacher.
A local Podcast, that has been following the case of missing high school students, now add Aaron into the mix. Are these cases connected?
The reader learns that Lila changed her name 13 years ago, but no history before that. Until the police department starts investigating. The reader also learns that Lila’s early years were tied to a man who now sits in prison.
The suspense in the book did not let up. As more evidence came forth, the more my head spun. As more of the history was told, the more I didn’t know what characters to like or dislike. And who of the characters were the suspects or the victims, or even who was truly the murderer ( oh yes….the bodies start to pile up!!!!).
Was there someone in this cast of characters that had a wrong to right? Maybe even a hero? Does the truth finally reveal itself?
If this was Ms. Kane’s debut novel, then I can’t wait for what the future holds. But I know one thing, she is now on my “authors to read” list.
Was the buzz correct about this book? ABSOLUTELY and then some!!!!
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Mailbox Monday
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Tuesday:
Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica~ eBook from Harlequin via NetGalley
Wednesday:
Her Dark Lies by J.T. Ellison ~ eBook from Harlequin via NetGalley
Friday:
Whisper Island by Carissa Ann Lynch ~ eBook from Harper Collins UK via NetGalley
Six Weeks To Live by Catherine McKenzie~ eBook from Atria/S&S via NetGalley
Did I say You Could Go by Melanie Gideon ~ eBook from Simon & Schuster via NetGalley
A woman disappears into the dark city night…
Gen is on the verge of a divorce from her cheating husband. When her sister, Meg, has a convention to attend in the Big Apple, she invites Gen along to celebrate her newly found freedom. But the perfect sisters’ getaway quickly goes awry when a tipsy Gen defiantly throws her wedding ring off the hotel room’s balcony. Then, wanting some fresh air, she decides to take a late-evening walk alone and vanishes without a trace.
The investigation that follows uncovers secrets–and betrayals–between sisters and spouses that will twist the truth in on itself until nothing is clear.
What really happened to Gen and who, besides Meg, was the last to see her?
Dr. Meghan Harris has invited her sister, Genevieve Thibault and who considers each other’s best friend, for a NY weekend away to lift Gen’s spirits because she is going through a very tumultuous divorce from her husband Thad due to his infidelity after 10 years of marriage.
On the first night in NY, after the sisters go out to eat and end up having a few too many drinks, they return to the hotel. Meghan asks Gen why she is still wearing her very extravagant wedding band after all these months. Gen decides it’s time to take it off and walks out onto the balcony and throws it off. At this point, she tells Meg that she just needs to be alone and get some air. That’s the last time she is seen.
This is the first book that I have read by this author but it surely won’t be the last.
The story alternates between Gen and Meg, with the then and now.
The writing and storyline were solid. The suspense was unremitting and substantial that it had me glued to every word.
There were so many OMGs!! I didn’t see that coming throughout the book.
My explanation as to why I didn’t give it a full 5 stars was for 2 reasons. Approximately a little over halfway through I did figure out who had kidnapped Gen. Even so, I kept on reading because I felt that there had to be more to this story and I had to know the whys. And it was then that many of the OMGs!!! started. The other reason, which probably wouldn’t bother another reader, but for me, I found annoying was the use of the word mercurial too many times.
Even with that, I will be putting this “new to me” author on my “authors to read” list.
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My favorite kind of homemade cookie is chocolate peanut butter balls.
I’m a big fan of all holiday desserts.
I look most forward to being with my kids and granddaughters, but unfortunately, not this year during the holiday season.
Trying to figure out what to buy my husband is my least favorite thing about the holiday season.
