A delightful British mystery that will keep you guessing until the very end.
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A delightful British mystery that will keep you guessing until the very end.
Without spoiling too much (it does read a bit thriller-ish), Take Me Apart is an incisive look at women in art, domestic violence, and the complexities of legacy.
Patience Portefeux is a 53-year-old widow with two grown daughters and a mother in a nursing home. She works as an Arabic translator for the French police, preferring to translate phone taps rather than the interrogations so she can work from home. Even though she’s working on the drug squad, she feels sympathetic for the young men she’s listening to. The inciting incident of the plot? She accidentally stumbles across the mom of one of the drug dealers she’s listening in on, and inserts herself into the drama. Eventually, she turns into a drug dealer; Patience knows what she has to do to evade the police.
Imagine a world where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were real people, and their descendants still lived and interacted with each other. Imagine their great-great-great-grandkids attended boarding school together. And, well, you have the plot of Brittany Cavallaro’s wonderful trilogy.
Set in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, then under Franco’s regime, The Labyrinth of the Secrets follows Alicia, an investigator for the secret police with a mysterious past.
Adrienne Celt’s book, Invitation to a Bonfire, pieces together diary pages from a fictional young woman named Zoya, and love letters from a fictional Russian writer named Leo "Lev" Orlov (based on Vladimir Nabokov). In doing so, she builds up sexual and violent tension to a point where I hit the end of the novel and thought, HOLY SHIT.
Kinda fun if you're into Duchamp and/or thrillers, but not really worth it.
A private school in Vermont for gifted kids + a decades old murder that's unsolved + a delightfully diverse gang of teens = a delightfully engaging mystery novel.
