Review: Blind Faith - Alicia Beckman - October 2022 As readers of my book reviews and blog will know, I am a mood reader and can be a fussy reader. I was in one of those mindless scrolls and came across Blind Faith. This one sounded intriguing as it contained an unsolved murder, a family, friends, and a dark secret. The book starts with a murder and running a guy off the road. Then the book jumps twenty years as we are in the present time of 2016 and Lindsay is back in her hometown and working as a lawyer when she is given a box of items found in a crate at one of the places she is working with. Inside was a wallet and the wallet belonged to Father Michael O'Leary, a priest who vanished without a trace back in 1992 when she was 15 years old. Inside is also a photo of a young girl aka Ginger who is Carrie's little sister. Lindsay met Carrie a few times, just before the family moved shortly after the Father’s disappearance. Is it connected? The book then moves over to Carrie...

  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...