Genre: Mystery / Suspense
Book Type: Audio
Author: Annie Ward
Narrator: Xe Sands, Vivienne Leheny & Paul Fox
Pages / Length: 368 pages / 11 hours and 58 minutes
Publisher: Park Row; Original edition (March 5, 2019)
Book Description:
There are two sides to every story… And every person.
Maddie and Ian’s love story began with a chance encounter at a party overseas, while she was a travel writer visiting her best friend, Jo. Now almost two decades later, married with a beautiful son, Charlie, they are living the perfect suburban life in Middle America. But when a camping accident leaves Maddie badly scarred, she begins attending writing therapy, where she gradually reveals her fears about Ian; her concerns for the safety of their young son; and the couple’s tangled and tumultuous past with Jo. From the Balkans to England, Iraq to Manhattan, and finally to an ordinary family home in Kansas, sixteen years of love and fear, adventure and suspicion culminate in The Day of the Killing, when a frantic 911 call summons the police to the scene of a shocking crime.
Thoughts:
This wasn’t at all what I expected! This was about the police arriving to a crime-scene (the sight of blood), and the unfolding of a marriage and their twisted pasts that lead up to the fateful night. It had drama, suspense, depression, lies, deception, friendship, lust/love and lots of heartbreak and disappointment.
While there were some twists and I love non-linear timelines, this was a bit hard to follow as (I am terrible with geography), so the geological references when everyone was going from country-to-country was really hard for me to follow (and truly understand). I went into this expecting more of a “who-dun-it” and it had a lot more depth than I expected. That being said, it was entertaining, but was hard to get sucked into for me.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️💫
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