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 …
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 …
The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins was published in January of this year. I read Hawkin’s mystery-thriller The Wife Upstairs a few years back, so this release caught my eye though I was on the fence about whether the premise interested me. In The Heiress, Camden is the adopted son of a very wealthy heiress who …
The Fury by Alex Michaelides came out in January, a standalone book that takes place in the same world as his previous mystery-thrillers, The Silent Patient and The Maidens. There’s brief mentions of the characters from his previous books, but definitely no need to have read either of them to get into this one. The …
