by Carol Goodman
As described on the glossy red cover, "An atmospheric thriller, but a smart one with a racing story line". This is my 1st time reading this author. My step-dad read and gave me this novel. It was pretty good, not great. Forgettable.
In fact, I actually finished it about a month ago and wasn't anxious to review it. But I decided, it's a new year and we need updated blogs, per Greg's request. Now I have to think back on the book because it really didn't quite make an imprint on my mind, obviously. I do describe it as a good, easy summer read. It's a recently published book, 2004. Takes place in the Appalachian Catskills at an old, secluded hotel where the narrator (written in first person) finds herself going back to this hotel where she lived as a child. She uncovers the secrets of her dead mother's past. Both are authors and her mother was a somewhat famous author of children's Irish fairy tales. Each chapter begins with a folklore. There is murder, jewelry thievery, affairs, scandals.
I have to give it a rating of just three stars, however, because it simply didn't hold my interest, although I did finish it.
