Review: The Beginning After - Kiersten Modglin - February 2018 One of the authors that I have decided to read on their backlist is Kiersten Modglin and what better way than to use Kindle Unlimited? In The Beginning After the book starts with Peighton not seeing her husband and son, and then heads off to work. During her day she gets a bad feeling and picks up her son Kyle. As they pull up to their home, they see a range of police cars and ambulances, etc. It turns out her husband Todd was found dead at the bottom of the stairs. Was it an accident or murder? During the investigation, Peighton meets Officer Caleb Nealson. He believes that the same person who killed his wife Sarah is the same one who murdered her husband Todd. He just doesn't have concrete proof but believes it was someone who goes by the name Beezelbub. Throughout the novel, Caleb and Peighton get closer and we see sparks fly but Todd isn't the only one with dark secrets as Peighton has secrets of her own about...

  Review: The Family Secret - Kiersten Modglin - January 2023 I have been on a mission to read Kiersten Modglin's backlist of books as I found them at the start of the year and loved her mystery/thriller settings. In The Family Secret, we meet Austyn Murphy who has just gotten engaged to Lowell Bass. Austyn and Lowell, are two worlds apart and it's never been a big deal but when Lowell's parents die, Austyn is thrown headfirst into a world of wealth and family drama. Lowell and Austyn head back to the Bass family home where she meets the other siblings Fallon and Dallas. Lowell is not the guy she fell in love with as tensions have been high. She puts it down to the fact that he is grieving, but when she finds the diary of a young girl who used to live in the Bass Mansion but is said to have died when she was seventeen after an affair with Simon Bass - Lowell's grandfather. She starts to ask questions and discovers that this family has a lot of skeletons in their clo...