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books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 038

The Unquiet Bones by Loreth Anne White

“We should not be forced to chase closure. What we need to find are ways to coexist with our complex feelings, and to always remember that our reactions are completely normal. They’re not a sign of personal weakness.”

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Title: The Ghost Writer

Author: Loreth Anne White

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2024

Genres: fiction, mystery, thriller, gothic, suspense, crime

Blurb: Grace Logan can't ghostwrite the memoir of Claudia Blackwell, a successful novelist once accused of a ghastly triple murder. Did she really do it? In self-imposed exile within her island mansion, the frail Claudia is finally bringing her notorious past to a close...but for Grace, the end of Claudia's story may be more than a sinister reveal.

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Лорет Энн Вайт "Утонувшие девушки"

На старинном кладбище найдена едва живая девушка, которую преступник оставил умирать у ног статуи девы Марии. ��дновременно из горо��ского канала выловили замотанное в пленку неопознанное тело. На лбу обеих жертв вырезано распятие.

К делу приступает молодой детектив Энджи Палорино, но она берется за него с опаской. Мало того, что после начала расследования Энджи стала слышать жуткие голоса в голове, так еще и новый сотрудник Джеймс, с которым она вынуждена работать в паре, оказался ей знаком по совершенно иному поводу…

Обычно я не читаю авторов женщин, потому что они, в своём большинстве, пишут "типичные женские романы" в каком угодно жанре и обычно это не что-то шедевральное, что захочется перечитать. Этот триллер-детектив отлично зайдёт на разок, да так, что оторваться будет сложно. Не смотря на мягкий переплет и мелкий шрифт, а также внушительное количество страниц, я закончила книгу за две вечера. Сюжет захватывающий, зрелищный и динамичный, много мерзости и извращений и сцен 18+

Как оказалось, это первая из цикла трилогии книг о женщине детективе (к слову как раз гг мне совершенно не понравилась своей неадекватностью) но других у меня нет. Специально покупать не стану, но если кто-то подарит, то прочту ☺️

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Book Rec: The Unquiet Bones by Loreth Anne White

When bones are discovered in a remote location, a cold case gets new life.

As her own life is in a tailspin, Detective Jane Munro becomes lead in a cold case with numerous suspects. Relying on scientific evidence, new technology, old eyewitness accounts and the victim herself, Munro and her team unravel the secrets held in the dark for decades.

The Unquiet Bones offers a compelling plot while keeping a brisk pace.

Check out The Unquiet Bones

See more of Beth's recs

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Book Review: The Ghost Writer by Loreth Anne White

The Ghost Writer (Never Tell Collection, #2) The Ghost Writer by Loreth Anne WhiteMy rating: 5 of 5 starsKindleWow! What a twist!   I really enjoyed this story complete with psychotic killers and a remote castle island. Neat twist at the end too.View all my reviews Amazon A reclusive author with a lurid history is ready to divulge her most infamous secret to the world in a chilling short story…

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THE SWIMMER by Loreth Anne White at The Reading Cafe:

'a detailed, dramatic, gritty and raw look at madness and obsession, betrayal and vengeance, secrets and lies, and dysfunctional family dynamics'

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Books of 2023 #36

The Maid's Diary by Loreth Anne White

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april 2024

01 - Americana by Luke Healy (5/5) 📙🌈

05 - The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin (3/5) 🎧📘

09 - Weyward by Emilia Hart (3/5) 🅱📘🌈🎯

16 - The Fury by Alex Michaelides (4/5) 🅱📘🎯

22 - Field Guide to the Haunted Forest by Jarod K. Anderson (3/5) 📘

24 - The Unquiet Bones by Loreth Anne White (3/5) 🎧📘🌈

30 - Winter Palace by Dennis Jones (3/5) 📘

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I read In The Waining Light by Loreth Anne White in Russian.

I loved it. The detective part was crazy, the ending made me cry like a baby.

Since I’m aroace, I was feeling uncomfortable to read “spicy” scenes, but that’s one of the lifetime book, where it didn’t feel “too much”

I was really invested and read about 100 pages every day. I finished that book in just four-five days. And I’m a slow reader, so it’s not usual for me.

I loved the idea of the main character returning to her home town, face everyone and everything, since she ran away after her sister was murdered and her parents died. She had to face the case and memories of the day her sister was murdered, her first love, visit her aunt she haven’t seen in years. And tragedy happened 22 years ago. A lot of people there were pissed that she is digging up memories everyone was trying to move away from and forget.

The idea, in my opinion, isn’t new. It’s not like it’s the first book in this style, but it’s very well written and it holds you on chokehold until the very end.

Will definitely check out more of her books

Those two songs aren’t giving off that “dark mystery detective vibe”, but feels like lyrics are perfect for explaining this book’s vibe

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Hey! I hope it’s okay that I sent an ask (it seemed like the easiest way to ask without worrying about character limits), but I would absolutely love some psychological thriller, mystery, and crime novel recs on Kindle Unlimited! I hope that you’re doing as well as possible, and honestly thank you so much for offering recs in the tags because I really appreciate it. 💕

Hello!! Don't worry about sending an ask, I hope you're doing great too ❤️

Alright so reccomendations. Though now that I think about it these edge more towards crime and thriller than straightforward mystery, as a note.

By Loreth Anne White:

1.The Patient's Secret

2. The Maid's Diary

3. The Devil's Bridge

And by Freida McFadden:

1. Never Lie

2. The coworker

Both of these authors have a lot of books in genre and most are pretty good! I've been going through their works the last couple months. These are my favourites among them, appended with my mom's favourites because we're also sharing our Kindle unlimited.

This one I'm still reading so I can't fully reccomend yet, but The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry is very interesting so far.

I really hope there's something here you enjoy!! Kindle has a pretty decent algorithm so if you download a few of these, it'll probably become quite easy to find more.

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See What I Can't-Wait For ~ The Unquiet Bones by Loreth Anne White ~ 12/06/23 (Can't-Wait Wednesday/Waiting on Wednesday) @wishfulendings #CWW #WOW

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally, they’re books that have yet to be released. It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine. If you’re continuing with WOW, feel free to link those up too! Find out more here. This comes out on March 5,…

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The Unquiet Bones

Title: The Unquiet Bones Author: Loreth Anne White Genre: thriller Thank you, NetGalley, for this book. I’m a fan of White’s and have read several of her books including Beneath Devil’s Bridge, A Dark Lure, In the Dark, and The Lucky Ones, and am always excited to read a new one. However, this one fell flat for me. The main character and plot were fine, but this book had way too much going on…

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The Maid's Diary | Loreth Anne White | Published 2023 | *SPOILERS*

Kit Darling is a maid with a snooping problem. She's the "invisible girl", compelled to poke into her wealthy clients' closely guarded lives. It's a harmless hobby until Kit sees something she can't unsee in the home of her brand-new clients: a secret so dark it could destroy the privileged couple expecting their first child. This makes Kit dangerous to the couple. In turn, it makes the couple - who might kill to keep their secret - dangerous to Kit.

When homicide cop Mallory Van Alst is called to a scene at a luxury waterfront home known as the Glass House, she's confronted with evidence of a violent attack so bloody it's improbable the victim is alive. But there's no body. The homeowners are gone. And their maid is missing. The only witness is the elderly woman next door, who woke to screams in the night. The neighbor was also the last person to see Kit Darling alive.

As Mal begins to uncover the secret that has sent the lives of everyone involved on a devious and inescapable collision course, she realizes that nothing is quite as it seems.

An interesting thriller that follows an incredibly confusing timeline.

Kit Darling is a maid, following in her mother's footsteps after a terrible incident occurred while she was in high school, forcing her to drop out of school. When she begins working in the beautiful home called Rose Cottage, she is shocked to see that the owners of the home are non-other than Jon and Daisy Rittenberg. Jon is a former Olympic gold medalist skier, and Daisy was a rival of sorts, both attending the same small town high school in their Canadian ski resort town called Whistler.

Kit also has what she describes as a snooping problem, sharing tidbits here and there on her fake instagram page for followers who know nothing about the real her.

When an elderly woman called in a potential crime in the early morning hours of November 1st, nobody wants to take her seriously as she has previously called in false reports before. But when authorities arrive at the home of Vanessa and Haruto North, called the Glass House, they are disturbed to find an actual crime scene.

Mal and Benoit, detectives on the case, begin to uncover the tragedy that occurred within the house, with Jon and Daisy looking like the main suspects.

Kit was astonished to learn that Jon and Daisy had returned to Canada after having relocated to Colorado some years back. The incident that occurred in high school that forced Kit to leave everything behind was a terrible gang-rape, brought on by the fact that she was an unattractive teenage girl looking for attention from the popular boys. Multiple members of the mens ski team were involved, and afterwards, Kit learned that she was pregnant.

When Kit uncovers video evidence of her assault that had been vehemently denied by everyone involved in the safe in Daisy's dresser, Kit knows that she must enact her desire for revenge. She even involves Boon, her best friend and someone who had been witness to her assault that fateful night but never came forward for his own fears of being bullied for being a gay man who hadn't yet come out.

Eventually, the truth comes out via Boon. Kit began dressing up as Vanessa North, the real Vanessa in Singapore with her husband. She began wearing a fake pregnancy belly that had been used in a theater production she took part in and befriended Daisy, who was also pregnant. The two of them began meeting and having lunch together. Eventually, Kit, as Vanessa, wanted to invite the Rittenberg's over for dinner to meet her husband and to get to know the other couple better.

In the meantime, Jon was in the running for the COO position at her father-in-law's company, the main reason the couple ultimately decided to move back to Canada from Colorado. On top of the fact that back in Colorado, a young woman named Charley, an exotic dancer at a club, began accusing Jon of sexual assault as well as claiming to be pregnant with his baby, a very similar situation to Kit's.

Jon meets Mia, a sultry woman and the two of them agree to meet up, though when Jon becomes intoxicated, his memory ultimately fails him. When he awakens in the AirBNB that Mia says she was renting for business dealing while in Vancouver, naked and confused, he believes that Mia had set him up, and that he was sexually assaulted, by both her and a man, as his anus has a burning sensation.

But Boon confesses that he played the role of Kit-Vanessa's husband, Haruto, and that Kit wanted nothing more than to enact revenge for what the Rittenberg's made her endure as a teenager. After the rape, and ultimate termination of the pregnancy, Kit suffered an infection and is now unable to have children at all, which also led to the end of her brief marriage to a man named Todd.

Kit recorded the entire interaction, revealing herself to be both Vanessa to Daisy, and Mia to Jon. She requests that they wire transfer over $900,00 to her account, and that she will then leave them alone. Kit then wanted Boon to come to the house later, stage the mansion as if a murder had taken place, and then alerted the elderly neighbor that something was wrong by screaming.

The two of them drove a similar car to Jon's to a construction site, followed by Kit's yellow vehicle, and dropped a rolled up rug staged to look like Kit's body along with her vehicle in the water below.

Mal is shocked to learn all of this, and that the body that eventually turns up in the water is that of a missing elderly woman who had gone missing several months ago. Mal is ending this case to retire, as her own husband has early on-set Alzheimer's disease, and she needs to be with him full-time.

Despite everything, and everyone believing that she has gone missing and or is dead, Kit ends up in Laos, the hometown of Boon's parents. She has gotten away with the money, and we learn that Daisy actually had a hand in the assault that took place so many years ago, and that she is now paying a price as well.

The concept of this story was so great - however, I wish the timeline was a bit more in line. It was a bit confusing going from Kit's perspective in her diary, to Jon and Daisy, in the past before the "murder" to Mal after the "murder". It makes it hard to write my own synopsis afterward. I gave it two stars for that reason alone, otherwise the plot and story were really good.

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The Maid's Diary

5/5 stars

One sentence to encapsulate this book:

I SUPPORT WOMEN'S WRONGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To think, to think, I nearly decided to put this book on the back-burner yesterday because I felt it was too verbose at the start and I wasn't in the mood for it. Well, I just kept scrolling idly on and on and next thing I knew, I was suckered into the whole damn thing. 

I'm not unfamiliar with Loreth Anne White—I read the Drowned Girls but loathed its sequel. So I had slightly mixed feelings and some apprehension towards her writing, but this. This. Wow. 

The Maid's Diary is not a casual read. It covers serious themes like racism, sexual assault / rape, slut-shaming, and misogyny (INCLUDING internalised misogyny within women). All themes I care very, very much about. There are paragraphs like this (this is a second-person POV of one of the female enablers) that made me go, "Oh snap":

In this book, there is a girl who gets sexually assaulted. And in this book, this girl does not get justice… not at first. Her assailants (yes, there is more than one) get away with rape, and she is called a whore, a slut by the community. 

Even the women called her a slut, and some even protected the predators:

This book is a revenge thriller. And I felt the main character's need for revenge so strongly. I saw in a review complaining that revenge thrillers are nothing new, and... sure, but I guess the themes here just spoke to me so, so much. To say I was vindicated when the heroine got her justice is an understatement. I was screaming. Cheering.

(Some spoilers below:)

Going further into real ❗spoiler ❗territory (will be indented):

I am an idiot. I guessed that Kat was Mia, but I didn't expect her to be Vanessa, which was supposed to be much more obvious than the twist about her being Mia. I don't know why my brain just blanked on that.

Also, this book isn't without its faults—which, of course. There's no such thing as a perfect book, no matter any five-star rating I (or anyone) give it. I think the whole affair about how Kat prepared the blood in the Glass House was really far-fetched, and just… some loose threads never did get tied up, like the sneaker shoe. Also the body in the river was kind of weird and random and convenient. 

But 5 stars is based on my enjoyment level, and I enjoyed the heck out of this book. It was so satisfying seeing Jon get his just rewards at the end, and I was cackling when even Daisy dumped him (about time, woman!). His perfect life was falling apart, and I couldn't be HAPPIER for it.

All hail feminine rage, and fuck the patriarchy. 

❤❤❤❤

- 7 Aug 2023

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"Sometimes human chemistry just coalesces in a perfect storm."

The Patient's Secret, Loreth Anne White