Review #643: Best Day Ever by Kaira Rouda

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”

----Suzanne Collins

Kaira Rouda, a USA TODAY bestselling, multiple award-winning author, has penned a gripping psychological thriller called, Best Day Ever that is centered around a perfect married couple, where the caring husband plans a perfect weekend getaway for his darling wife at their lake house somewhere away from their two young boys and the bustling noise of their urban life style. Although the husband has planned everything meticulously to surprise his stupid wife, but gradually, the true colors of the husband's intention behind this trip comes out, but can the wife sniff that out or will it be too late before she figure things out. A crazy, psychotic marital tale of a perfect couple.

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Review #65: Live and Let Die by Bianca Sloane

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
----Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Bianca Sloane, an American author, has penned her new debut thriller named, Live and Let Die which is based of madness and obsession. This dark thriller made me freeze to my bone and left my mind numb with its stark fear and chill. And honestly this is the best debut thriller book that I ever read. For a first time, author, it's not easy to unfold a gripping and clever mystery, but Bianca has skillfully and smartly pulled all the strings correctly, thus resulting in an intriguing mystery that will take you places where you would never expect to go.

Synopsis:
On a bitterly cold January evening, Tracy Ellis went for a jog along Chicago’s snowy lakefront and disappeared. Her body was discovered days later, her beautiful face bashed in with a rock. Police determine her brutal death to be a mugging gone wrong and drop the matter into their cold case files.
Over a year later, Tracy’s sister, Sondra, still can’t come to grips with what happened. She throws herself into her work as a documentary filmmaker to try and forget the cruelty of her sister’s death. However, a chance encounter with a man from Tracy’s past rips the wound open and sends Sondra on a desperate search for answers about the secrets from her sister’s life that may have led to her death.

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