Body Double
by Tess Gerritsen
I've been grabbing audio books to listen to in my car recently. I get rather addicted to them once I start. Maybe even to the point that I try to think of someplace I need to drive just so I can listen some more.
Body Double is a Crime/Mystery/Thriller. Little did I know that it's one of the Rizzoli and Isles stories that the TV series is based on. I think I may have been expecting another thriller that would have been the basis for the 1984 movie with the same name, Body Double.
This book starts with a murder in which the victim is a spot on look-a-like for Dr. Isles. So much so that the investigative team is pretty shocked when she shows up wondering what is going on.
Dr. Isles discovers she had a twin sister. They were separated at birth and adopted by different sets of parents. (What a way to make such a discovery!) Since the victim is killed right outside Dr. Isles' home, the question becomes who is/was the real target?
The twists and turns in this story and satisfying and unexpected. I give it 3 of 5 shots. I enjoyed the story a lot but it's not my usual genre.
The Husband's Secret
by Liane Moriarty
Liane Moriarty is quickly rising to the top of my pool of favorite authors. The Husband's Secret is the third of her novels I've read and it looks like I have three more to go before I run out. I hope she can write faster than I can read.
The Husband's Secret follows the lives of three women at different places in their lives. Cecilia is the busy mom who is involved in everything and does everything seemingly perfectly. Little does she know that her husband has a secret, until one day she stumbles upon an envelope addressed to her from her husband. The instructions on the envelope indicated it should only be opened upon his death.
Rachel is a secretary at the small Catholic school Cecilia's children attend. She is a widow who's daughter was murdered years earlier. When she's not working or caring for her grandson she is grieving for her daughter and searching for the proof she needs to have the 'boy' who murdered her put away.
Tess has just arrived in Sydney with her young son to stay with her mother. Her husband and cousin/best friend have just announced to her that they have fallen in love. She needs time to digest this news and decide what she must do. Unexpectedly meeting up with an old boyfriend seems to make the adjustment easier.
The husband's secret is not revealed until far into the book. It's a secret that could be devastating to their lives, and indeed creates a disastrous situation. I don't know what surprised me more; the secret or the results of the secret coming to light.
I easily give this story five of five shots.
A Family Affair (Truth in Lies #1)
by Mary Campisi
I picked up this book from the Apple Store as a free book I could read on my phone. Probably 'free' because it's part of a four part series. I doubt I'll read parts two through four.
The story revolves around the heroine, Christine Blackstone, an ambitious young woman who works tirelessly to earn her place in her father's world of finance. Her father is killed in an auto accident while away on a monthly retreat at his cabin. Thus the scene is set for Christine to discover the woman and child her father spends four days a month with; his "other" family.
She sets out to find who this other family is and what they meant to her father. She discovers that her father was not entirely the successful business oriented man she knew and adored, but rather a man who loved a simpler life with another woman and their daughter. She tries to make sense of this "new" side to the man she worshiped and reconcile it with the side of the father she knew.
It was an entertaining read, easy and uncomplicated. I give it three of five stars. A book that I liked but will probably not remember in the future or rave over.
