Genre: Mystery/Women’s Fiction
Description:
“Deceit and disappearing acts.
Janice's husband, Ric, has gone missing.
The police are at Janice's door, and so is the media. Pictures of Ric
and the seductive but unstable daughter of the prime minister have hit the
news.
‘Have you ever suspected your husband of leading a double life?’ asks
the detective.
To make matters worse, Ric’s former fiancée, Justine, is alluding to
even more secrets.
Two women, practiced in avoiding each other, find their lives
interwoven as they both try to find out what happened to Ric. But sometimes
even two perspectives on the same man don't add up to the truth.”
Author:
An economist based in Toronto, a playwright, and an author who has had
short stories included in multiple anthologies, this is Lilla Csorgo’s first
novel.
Appraisal:
Different, strange, unique, offbeat, unorthodox … the thesaurus has
all kinds of word suggestions to describe this book. They all fit, to a point,
but none seem quite right. Told from two points of view, the book is part
mystery and part women’s fiction. The mystery, where did Ric Hawthorne
disappear. His wife, Janice, gives us one point of view. She doesn’t know where
he went. For the most part she doesn’t really care. (Yeah, at this point they
don’t have much of a relationship.) Then we have Justine, Ric’s former fiancé who
was never really out of Ric’s life. Does she know where he is or not? As both
do what they need to in order to move on with life while also trying to stay
out of the way of the police who are searching for Ric, we have a mystery going
on, but also get an interesting look into the lives of both ladies, plus Ric.
Do we find out what happened to Ric? Are the ladies both innocent of wrong
doing? How about Ric? Do we even care if he gets found? All those questions and
potential answers went though my mind as I read this book, enjoying the story,
but never very sure about where things were headed or where I wanted them to
go.
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Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues.
Rating: *****
Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate
word count: 80-85,000 words
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