“Monday With Kaye”
continues this week with a mystery/suspense novel by a NYT bestselling author.
“Missing Pieces” by Heather
Gudenkauf
This is a
novel of suspense and mystery within a family that may not be what it seems.
Sarah Quinlan
has a stable life and a happy marriage in Larkspur Lake, Montana, with her
husband and their daughters, who are off at college. She writes an advice
column called Dear Astrid to keep her hand in journalism. They haven’t felt the
need to even leave Montana for years.
Sarah
accompanies her husband Jack home to Penny Gate, Minneapolis, to see his
elderly Aunt Julia after she’s taken a fall and is in bad shape. He hasn’t been
home for twenty years. Sarah welcomes the chance to finally meet the family
Jack has told her so little of. She wants to learn more about his early
childhood, his parents’ deaths, and what his relatives are like.
The family
dynamics are uncomfortable from the start and she feels everyone is hiding
something from her. Jack, she realizes, has been avoiding going home. Why? She’s
missing information the rest of the Quinlans seem to know. Little by little, the
missing pieces appear, but don’t seem to fit together. In fact, the more she
learns, the more confused she is, until she doesn’t quite know who the man she
married actually is, or what he’s done in the past. She doubts the little she
thought she knew about Jack’s family—and him. Her journalist instincts take
over and she puts herself on the trail of Jack’s story, whoever he is, until
she realizes someone may be aiming for her. She must find out if she’s been
living a lie and, if she has, who can she do about it?
Reviewed by Kaye George, Author
of “Eine
Kleine Murder, for Suspense Magazine
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