Author: Catherine Alliott

Poppy has often imagined a life without her husband but when he is killed in a freak accident things don’t necessarily work out the way she thought they might. Living in a small village she has the support of her best friends, but is under the watchful eye of the entire village.

This book reminded me so much of a Maeve Binchy novel. I’ll read more by this author but I think each book has a different set of characters, which is too bad because I’d love to know what comes next with Poppy and her friends.

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Author: Liane Moriarty

I was about a quarter of the way through the book before I really started liking the characters. After an accident at the gym, Alice has lost ten years of her memory; she thinks she is married and pregnant with her first child when in fact she is divorcing her husband and she has three children.

It was most enjoyable as Alice began remembering snippets of her life; the comparison with what Alice assumes to be true and what is actually true lead to some fun moments.

The story also has snippets of a journal that Alice’s sister, Elisabeth, is writing at the request of her therapist. The letters that Alice’s “adopted” grandmother, Frannie, is writing to her dead fiancé are also included. I’m not sure why these appear in the story, but they are a good diversion.

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Author: Emma Salisbury

Another one from my iPad collection.

A pregnant mother kills her son and then hangs herself. A man, after a night out with his family, is murdered on their way home. The detectives on the case struggle to understand the first case and unravel the circumstances of the second, only to find a link between the two.

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Author: Florence Osmund

I read this on my iPad during a recent trip to Calgary.

A young woman uses her Private Investigator’s license and training to find the real story behind her parents and the secrets they kept.

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