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To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?
I am currently reading Last Kiss by Louise Phillips, the third in the Dr Kate Pearson series. This probably isn’t one for the faint hearted but I am really enjoying it.
Blurb
In a quiet suburb, a woman desperately clings to her sanity as a shadowy presence moves objects around her home.
In a hotel room across the city, an art dealer with a dubious sexual past is found butchered, his body arranged to mimic the Hangman card from the Tarot deck.
But what connects them?
When criminal psychologist Dr Kate Pearson is brought in to help investigate the murder, she finds herself plunged into a web of sexual power and evil which spreads from Dublin to Paris, and then to Rome.
Will Kate discover the identity of the killer before it’s too late to protect the innocent? But what separates the innocent from the guilty when the sins of the past can never be forgotten. Goodreads
I recently finished The Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell which is a story that spans 70 years.
Click on the cover to read my review
Next I plan to read Daughter by Jane Shemilt which is another book which concerns secrets and lies. I love the music box on the cover with the ballerina in it.
Blurb
Jenny loves her three teenage children and her husband, Ted, a celebrated neurosurgeon. She loves the way that, as a family, they always know each other’s problems and don’t keep secrets from each other.
But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn’t come home after her school play and a nationwide search for her begins, secrets previously kept from Jenny are revealed.
Naomi has vanished, leaving her family broken and her mother desperately searching for answers. But the traces Naomi’s left behind reveal a very different girl to the one Jenny thought she’d raised. And the more she looks the more she learns that everyone she trusted has been keeping secrets.
How well does she really know her sons, her husband? How well did she know Naomi? If Jenny is going to find her, she’ll have to first uncover the truth about the daughter she thought told her everything. NetGalley
What are you reading this week? Please share with me!
I read so many news feeds, but have because of work. Lynne Truss’ Talk to the Hand was fun and philosophical at the same time. Not sure what’s next. Most likely a wordpress fiction post. But, I do love books.
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Ooh, I want to read daughter!
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It does sound good doesn’t it?
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I would love to read “The Girl Next Door”. My WWW at NatashazWords
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The Girl Next Door wasn’t a typical mystery but it was great. Ruth Rendell is really good at deciphering motives and this is another example.
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I can see how being seen as the perfect family can place pressure to maintain that image even within. A missing child is heart stopping. I remember when my oldest was a toddler and disappeared at a school fair for a few seconds. My heart totally stopped. She had walked around the jumpy house.
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I know what you mean about losing a child, both my children got lost for moments as young children and the panic was enormous more so for my son as my daughter roared, so she was found quickly!
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Gotta love those secrets & lies 😉 Happy Reading!
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You know me, I couldn’t have something on my reading pile that didn’t involve the secrets and lies 😉
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Three great looking books there Cleo!
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I seem to be back on a roll of good books, fingers crossed that Daughter makes the hat-trick for this week.
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I have Daughter on my coming up list. I’m excited to read it!
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Oh me too, it looks really good doesn’t it?
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Cleo – Daughter really does look good. I’m very keen to see what you have to say about it. 🙂
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I love stories about families. I think because once you realise that each one is different, made up of the complexities of those that inhabit it. Endlessly fascinating to me so I’m looking forward to seeing how the author presents this one.
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Daughter sounds quite good–I’ll have to look for that one!
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Thank you – I have to admit I did a little dance when I got the approval for this one.
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Hi Cleo,
I know I love family relationship novels, too, but I’ve not found any good recs for any so I must mimic the others in saying that Daughter looks and sounds really good. The last relationship novel I read was an oldie by James M. Cain, titled, “Mildred Pierce.” Riveting and hard to put down but it was one of the best mother/daughter relationship book I’d read in quite sometime. I’d love more that like that.
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Great books here on your list. I haven’t read a Rendell book in years. I am going to have to check into her again. All of your books look interesting to me. Sigh – so many books, so little time.
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Thank you once again, Cleo. 🙂
Last Kiss has a temporary home on my TBR list…
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