This is an enthralling British mystery that combines suspense, motherhood, an adorable dog, teaching, teenagers, police procedure, modern romance, witchcraft, a Victorian ghost story, a real spectral legend, stalking, train rides and murders. Definitely in the ‘hard to put down’ category I hated to see this book end. It is a multi-narrator mystery but it’s really Clare’s story, a divorced single mom in her early 40’s teaching English lit at the high school rocked by the murders. The others are a mid-30’s Anglo-Indian woman, Harbinder, a tightly wound Police Inspector with a wry sensibility and Clare’s 15 year old daughter, Georgia, who is a normal teenager except for her active but secret interest in the paranormal.
Category: Suspense
“Such a Perfect Wife” by Kate White
This suspenseful mystery features Bailey Weggins as an investigative reporter for a new website, Crime Beat, on her first assignment in the tourist area of Lake George, NY to report on the breaking story of a missing, wealthy local businessman’s wife who disappeared one morning in early Fall.
As in all of Kate White’s suspense novels, the plot and action captivated me from the first and it is definitely in the ‘hard to put down’ category. The main character Bailey Weggins is a perfect balance of niceness, savvy, smarts and calculating shrewdness that impresses with that extra edge of New York City know how. Plus, she works very hard in an unrelenting kind of way that keeps the plot racing along.