Imagine the worst thing a friend could ever do.

This is worse.

When Mel receives an unexpected email from her oldest friend Abi, it brings back memories she thought she had buried forever. Their friendship belonged in the past. To those carefree days at university.

But Abi is in trouble and needs Mel’s help, and she wants a place to stay. Just for a few days, while she sorts things out. It’s the least Mel can do.

After all, friends look out for each other, don’t they?

I Invited Her In is a blistering tale of wanting what you can’t have, jealousy, and revenge from Sunday Times best-seller Adele Parks.

After seeing some buzz of this book, I thought it would be a thrilling read. However, after reading 22% of the book, I still hadn’t reached a place where it was grabbing me. So for me, this was a DNF.

Purchase Links: Amazon 🔗 | Barnes & Noble 🔗 | Goodreads 🔗

Mailbox Monday

Tuesday:
IT’S HOT IN THE HAMPTONS by Holly Peterson ~ ARC TPB from Harper Collins
RAVEN LANE by Amber Cowie ~ eBook from Lake Union Publishing via NetGalley
Friday:
DEATH ON THE RIVER by Diane Fanning ~ PB from St. Martin’s Press

This year, one of the Challenges I signed up for is Blog All About It, hosted by The Herd Presents. The guideline is basically a blogging prompt challenge. Each month there’s a different prompt that you can interpret as you’d like then create a blog post around it. The 2019 list of prompts can be seen here on my Challenge Page. I will be posting for this Challenge on the 2nd Saturday of each month.

One of my favorite words!

I admit I have a sweet tooth. No that’s not true, I have several!!

My go-to favorite sweet, which also is my comfort food, is ice cream!! Preferably a sundae from Friendly’s with forbidden chocolate and chocolate chip ice cream with hot fudge, peanut butter, and marshmallow toppings and let’s not forget the sprinkles, whipped cream, and the cherry!

And talking about chocolate, I’m not very good around Halloween. Having bags of candy ready to be given out, some of the bags do not contain the entire number of pieces that is stated on the bag.

And if I am completely honest, I will never pass on dessert, be it cakes or pies.

But the greatest sweetness in my life today, are my 2 granddaughters, Lucy who will be 3 in October and Nora, who is 2 ½ months old. With the internet being both a positive and negative with some people stealing images, I won’t be posting their pictures. But know, their sweetness fills my heart!!

1. I used to be able to ___________________, but I no longer can.
2. I just can’t seem to _____________________.
3. I’m notorious for _________.
4. There’s no use crying over _________.

1. I used to be able to stay awake until the wee hours of the morning, but I no longer can.

2. I just can’t seem to to do everything I used to do, but I think that’s just age.

3. I’m notorious for adding books to my TBR list/pile even though I need many lifetimes to read all the ones I already have. YES!! I am a book hoarder!.

4. There’s no use crying over trivial things, life is too short.

Catching a killer is dangerous—especially if he lives next door

Hen and her husband Lloyd have settled into a quiet life in a new house outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Hen (short for Henrietta) is an illustrator and works out of a studio nearby, and has found the right meds to control her bipolar disorder. Finally, she’s found some stability and peace.

But when they meet the neighbors next door, that calm begins to erode as she spots a familiar object displayed on the husband’s office shelf. The sports trophy looks exactly like one that went missing from the home of a young man who was killed two years ago. Hen knows because she’s long had a fascination with this unsolved murder—an obsession she doesn’t talk about anymore, but can’t fully shake either.

Could her neighbor, Matthew, be a killer? Or is this the beginning of another psychotic episode like the one she suffered back in college, when she became so consumed with proving a fellow student guilty that she ended up hurting a classmate?

The more Hen observes Matthew, the more she suspects he’s planning something truly terrifying. Yet no one will believe her. Then one night, when she comes face to face with Matthew in a dark parking lot, she realizes that he knows she’s been watching him, that she’s really on to him. And that this is the beginning of a horrifying nightmare she may not live to escape. . .

Do you believe everything happens for a reason? Do you believe that people enter our lives at the exact time for a purpose? Then you can say that’s what happened when Hen and her husband had dinner with their new neighbors.

Hen is Bipolar and in the past had some psychotic breaks but today her medication has stabilized her. So when they are given a tour of the neighbor’s house, she knows that what she sees, a fencing trophy is the property of a student that was killed 2 years ago. But why would her neighbor, Matthew be in possession of it unless he had something to do with the murder. A murder that she has followed closely. But because of her past, nobody believes her that the murderer is living right next door, especially the police. And then she witnesses another murder.

Matthew knowing her history and that nobody is taking her seriously, he embarks on a truth session and tells her that he is indeed the killer and why. He also divulges about the abusive childhood that he and his brother Richard endured.

This is the first book that I read by this author but will be looking for more of his work. I enjoyed his writing style and that the suspense continued throughout the book, which made me want to keep turning the pages. The story was believable as well as the characters. And an ending that made me gasp!

If you enjoy Psychological Thrillers, pick this one up!

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Mailbox Monday

I was away for 2 weeks spending time with my granddaughters and these books were delivered:
Saturday, March 16th:
PARK AVENUE SUMMER by Renee Rosen ~ TPB from Penguin Random House via GR win
THE MOTHER-IN-Law by Sally Hepworth ~ HC from St. Martin’s Press

Monday:
BY A SPIDER’S THREAD by Laura Lippman ~ TPB from Harper Collins
Wednesday:
CAT CHASE THE MOON by Shirley Rousseau Murphy ~ HC from Harper Collins
Friday:
COLD WATERS by Debbie Herbert ~ eBook from Prime

1. The highlight of my week is ______________________.
2. Only _____ more days until __________________.
3. I believe I was born to _________.
4. Age is _________.

1. The highlight of my week is celebrating our 38th wedding anniversary.

2. Only 1 more day until the weekend, which means more time to read.

3. I believe I was born to be a Mom and a Nana, which are my greatest joys.

4. Age is just a number.