Genre: Suspense
Publisher: Grand Central Publ.
Release Date: April 20, 2021
Purchase Link: Amazon
My Rating: 4 Suspicious Hearts
Special thanks to Grand Central Publ. for an arc of this book.
Gaslight goes high-tech in USA Today bestselling author Cate Holahan's new standalone thriller in which a family must determine who the real enemy is after a brutal home invasion breaks their trust in each other.
Review:
Social Media Influencer Jade Thompson is engaged to be married to Architect Greg Hamlin. Greg is divorcing his wife and marrying Jade who is carrying his child. While Jade is an up and coming social media star, she isn't in the same class as Greg when it comes to fame, wealth and culture but they declare their love and commit to making it work. Greg is a multi-millionaire and twenty years Jade's senior, raising a lot of eyebrows and throwing up warning signs among Greg's family and friends, especially his resentful daughter Violet who takes every opportunity to feed her dad's anxiety over the age difference. Thus, when a home invasion turns savage, the seeds of doubt previously sown sprout and start to grow. Greg is left home-bound with a traumatic brain injury and a severe case of paranoia from the brutal attack, and Jade loses their baby. In his highly agitated state, Greg begins questioning her motives for staying with him. Devoted daughter Violet continues feeding her dad's doubts and fueling his suspicions until Gregg starts to believe that Jade's only after his money. After having a high price security system installed, Greg spends his days tracking his fiance's every move, growing more paranoid by the hour. Jade stands to inherit a great deal of money upon Greg's death. Did she hire someone to kill him and destroy their child?
Through Jane's narration, readers know she's hiding a big secret about her past, but they don't know what. They do know her intent - her reason for staying with Greg which gives them special insight into the direction this story takes. Jade may be the number one suspect, but the cast of possible villains is convoluted. As reader's soon learn, there're several red herrings with motive and opportunity, and the author does a great job with the development of these players into the story line. While none of the characters are particularly likable, they play their roles to perfection serving to keep readers guessing as to who and why. While the story begins at a slow pace, it soon settles into a steady flow with rising tension that escalates in proportion to Greg's growing paranoia following a twisted plot line that explodes in a dramatic conclusion many won't see coming.
Her Three Lives is an intense, complex domestic suspense story with a multitude of suspects with motive. Solving the mystery became an obsession with me as I studied all the players, motives, and opportunities. Callahan's writing is precise, setting the pace and moving the story forward with expertise. Just when readers are lulled into thinking they know everything, she hits them with an explosive "aha" ending. Her Three Lives is a methodical suspense thriller that fans of the genre will enjoy.
Synopsis:
Her public life
Jade Thompson has it all. She’s an up-and-coming social media influencer, and she has a beautiful new home and a successful architect for a fiancé. But there’s trouble behind the scenes. To Greg’s children, his divorce from their mother and his new life can only mean a big mid-life crisis. To Jade, his suburban Connecticut upbringing isn’t an easy match with her Caribbean roots.
Her private life
A savage home invasion leaves Greg house-bound with a traumatic brain injury and glued to the live feeds from his ubiquitous security cameras. As the police investigate the crime and Greg’s frustration and rage grows, Jade begins to wonder what he may know about their attackers. And whether they are coming back.
Her secret life
As Greg watches Jade’s comings and goings, he becomes convinced that her behavior is suspicious and that she’s hiding a big secret. The more he sees, the more he wonders whether the break-in was really a random burglary. And whether he’s worth more to Jade if he were dead than alive.
Cate Holahan is the USA Today Bestselling author of psychological suspense books. Her fifth novel, Her Three Lives, will be published by Grand Central Publishing in April 2021. She has had books named to Kirkus' Best Books of the Year and Book of the Month Club's official selections. Notable works include: One Little Secret, Lies She Told, The Widower's Wife, and Dark Turns.
An award-winning journalist and former television producer, she has written for BusinessWeek, The Boston Globe, and The Record newspaper. Her short fiction won first place in the 19th annual Calliope competition, a magazine published by the writer's group of American Mensa. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, two daughters, ages 7 and 5, and dog Westley.
She graduated from Princeton University in 2002.
She is represented by Paula Munier at Talcott Notch Literary.
An award-winning journalist and former television producer, she has written for BusinessWeek, The Boston Globe, and The Record newspaper. Her short fiction won first place in the 19th annual Calliope competition, a magazine published by the writer's group of American Mensa. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, two daughters, ages 7 and 5, and dog Westley.
She graduated from Princeton University in 2002.
She is represented by Paula Munier at Talcott Notch Literary.
http://www.cateholahan.com
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