Simply Lies: A Psychological Thriller

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In addition, being a single mom with two very young children and remaining baby fat provides her with a more grounded world and an interesting perspective to explore.

However, when she arrives, she finds a dead body in a secret room and realizes she may have been set up. And to top it all off, we are constantly shown and reminded that Mickey’s two young children can’t keep their food down. Arlene / Clarisse appears to know a lot about Mickey and is baiting her to look into the murder of Harry Lancaster. Gibson is an interesting character and different from Baldacci’s usual government or secret agent, some with a military background, or a private or state investigator. While Baldacci is usually an excellent storyteller, this story is convoluted, long-winded, and frankly a bit boring.It may be a one-off for Baldacci, but the way it ended left off for the possibility for more Gibson adventures if the fans push for it and the author is interested in revisiting her again in the future.

Then she’d heard a crash somewhere and found Tommy sitting on the kitchen floor, covered with most of the wet dirt from a potted plant. Who is Clarisse and why did she involve Mickey in her schemes, endangering her and her family in the process? Also his characters need more anchoring when doing something that goes against the grain of who I'm being told this character is. He had some setbacks over the years, and it looked like he would go quietly into the night with the bucks he had left.She followed the directions until she turned down a long narrow road that was bracketed on both sides by mature trees that were just starting to bud out in early spring. In fact, after the dénouement, the book seems to be like an Energizer bunny and keeps on going, and going, and going ad nauseum with a sappy conclusion. He’d told her that he wanted a large family, but as soon as one baby was out of the oven he had been a changed man, chafing at not being able to go out with his friends, or having his weekends “ruined” by the daddy do list.

Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs.While the case has interest all the way up to the feds, Mickey receives threats from locals as well. The MC in this one jeopardizes her life, the lives of her children and her parents to get back into the old swing of hands-on investigation. She is thrilled to be sent into the field to check out what assets might have been left behind in an old mansion but instead finds a dead body in a hidden room.