This month I reviewed My Favorite Terrible Thing by Madeleine Henry. Henry is the author of five novels. Her work has been featured in national publications.
Nina Travers is a private investigator who works for wealthy and powerful clientele in the Hamptons. She gets results by blending in and seeming to belong in her surroundings. Nina has learned the art of being who she needs to beat any given time much like a chameleon.
When the world famous novelist, Claire Ross, mysteriously disappears on her wedding date, there’s no ransom note or signs of foul play, no note to her fiancé or her family. Was she taken or is she a runaway bride? The police have decided Claire left of her own free will. Her mother and fiancé aren’t so sure. Claire’s superfans fill the internet with suspicions and conspiracy theories leading her family to believe one of them has crossed the line and taken her. They hire Nina to get answers.
Nina, who is secretly obsessed with Claire and Claire’s bestselling novel, turns to its pages to figure out what happened.
Claire’s book is a love letter through the ages about a man and woman who are reincarnated for generations and destined to fall in love until they get it right. After meeting Claire’s fiancé, a sweet, but boring man, Nina speculates that he might not have been Claire’s muse. Why is there no ransom note? Claire and her mother are both wealthy – paying to get her back would be easy. Did an obsessive fan imagine themselves as her perfect love and take before her wedding?
Is she alive or was she killed to prevent her marrying someone else? Did Claire find her perfect love and run away?
These are the questions Nina must answer searching through the book for clues.
Twisty plot with over the top moments, but a definite page turner that will keep you guessing until the final page. No one is who they seem.
Other Works by Madeleine Henry:
The Last Celebrity
Name Not Taken
The Love Proof
Breathe In, Cash Out
Photo Credits:
Author Photo by Léa Cartier. Taken from author’s website with no intention of copyright infringement.
Book jacket: taken from the author’s website with no intention of copyright infringement.
For more about this author, visit her website, www.itsmadeleinehenry.com