Chapters 1 – 3, Present Day Brooke Sullivan, a nurse practitioner, shows up for her first day of work at Raker Maximum Security Penitentiary, men’s maximum-security prison. This job was her last choice, but it was the only place she got called back for an interview. She meets with Dorothy Kuntz, a nurse at the …
With The Inmate by Freida McFadden, I’m continuing my recent streak of working my way through some of her very quick thrillers. I’ve been wanting to get my mind off of things, and I thought this might do the trick. In The Inmate, Brooke Sullivan has taken a job at a men’s maximum security prison …
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett was released in August of 2023, and in addition to being a Reese’s Book Club pick, it also has the distinction of having an audiobook that’s narrated by Meryl Streep. I wasn’t sure at first if it was going to make the cut onto my already lengthy reading list, but …
Chapter 1 (The book opens with Laura “Lara” Kenisonrecounting a story to her three 20-something daughters, Maisie, 22, Nell , 24, and Emily, 26.) As Lara’s story opens, the community theater is holding auditions for a production of the play Our Town in the local high school gymnasium. Lara is a junior in high school, …
The book opens with a passage about how easily someone can vanish in Appalachia. It’s followed by a news article about the disappearance of a 3-year-old girl, Ruby Anne McTavish, on Sunday, September 12, 1943. Ruby was the daughter of Mason McTavish of Tavistock, North Carolina, and his wife, Mrs. Anna McTavish (née Miss Anna …
