Saturday, April 22, 2023

Stacking the Shelves #24

I have already been thinking about what I want to read in May. Finding books for the Monthly Key Word Reading Challenge is always difficult. I believe that I have found a great choice for the challenge with Stolen in the Night. Patricia McDonald's psychological thriller was published late last year and I have just ordered a copy for my Kindle. 

This thriller is about Tess DeGraff who was nine years old and on a camping trip in New Hampshire with her family when a stranger kidnapped and killed her sister Phoebe. Thanks to Tess's eyewitness testimony, a man named Lazarus Abbott was arrested and convicted for the heinous crime. But twenty years later, a test reveals that Abbott's DNA does not match that of Phoebe's murderer. Driven by her fear that she may have sent an innocent man to his death, Tess and her adopted son, Erny, return to the New Hampshire town in which it all happened years ago. While Tess's family stands by her account of the crime, nerves are frayed throughout Stone Hill, NH and others in town accuse her of lying and view her as a murderer. 

In a race against time to untangle the truth about her sister's murder, Tess encounters an anti-death penalty lawyer, Ben Webster, who infuriates her but who also might open her eyes and her heart; a biased police chief related to the Abbotts; and an unknown killer who has Tess and Erny in his sights. 

I haven't read Patricia MacDonald is a long time and am excited to read this novel. What books are you interested in reading?

2 comments:

  1. I have not read anything by her. I hope you enjoy it!!

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  2. I have way too many ebooks in all genres waiting to be read. Recently, I've been reading short story collections and memoirs, some quite good. I've just posted one by a surgeon. Do visit.

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