And don’t forget there’s an undercover enemy among your ranks! Direct light keeps this apparition from transforming out of ghost form, so your flashlights are now more important than ever when trying to stay out of his ghostly grasp!Ĭooperate with your teammates, stay together or tactically split up, use your perks and abilities, and drop those basement door locks one by one. His abilities include a spectral ghost transformation capable of flighting and phasing through walls, and an ultimate ability to temporarily disable every light within close proximity. Are you clever enough to uncover them all? Team up with five other players and unlock the basement before you get caught. That leads to her uncovering clues to the murder, and, to no one’s surprise, she finds herself in danger.The Neighbor’s house hides many secrets. Jordan gets into the middle of things when she interviews the mother and relatives of the girl, along with a community activist and the police. “If the victim had been a white girl …,” Jordan insists. Black groups protest the lack of police interest. Jordan covers crime and takes a personal interest when the mutilated body of a young Black girl is found. (Sounds a little like talk show host - and the book’s author - Tamron Hall, doesn’t it?) Jordan Manning is a beautiful, sophisticated, driven Black television reporter with a cool name. Shawn Taylor (William Morrow) As the Wicked Watch (William Morrow) “As the Wicked Watch,” by Tamron Hall with T. As she learns more about the women, and as her own ugly past is exposed, she reluctantly agrees to help the P.I.Īs Wren becomes more involved in a dangerous game, she’s not sure who is hunting whom. Moreover, there are cryptic text messages. It was clear that Adam loved her, and she thinks she catches glimpses of him hovering nearby. I’m sorry.” As Wren tries to face the fact that she’s been dumped, a private eye shows up, claiming Adam is suspected in the disappearance of not one but three other women he met on the dating site. Still, it is a first-rate Colorado mystery set around the challenges mothers face.Īdam texts her: “Something’s happened. “The Neighbor’s Secret” is a complicated book - you almost need a scorecard to keep the characters straight.
Turns out Rachel isn’t the only one in the family with a secret: Annie’s turns out to be the most surprising of all. First, Rachel embarrasses the family with her drunken antics at a town festival. That intern, of course, has a secret.Įven Annie, who appears the most normal, worries that there is some genetic defect that affects Rachel, her eighth-grade daughter. Now he attends an off-beat religious institution, where he’s tutored by a seemingly innocuous intern.
He’s been kicked out of several schools, the last time for stabbing a girl. Lena isn’t totally comfortable with them, however, and there is a sense that she is hiding something from her new friends.Īmong them is Jen, who secretly fears that her son is a sociopath. Lena reluctantly attends the club, only to find she bonds with the women. The husband then conveniently died of a heart attack in jail. Lena was widowed years before when her drunken husband killed a young man in a hit-and-run accident. On a whim, Annie invites the reclusive and very wealthy Lena to join her book group.
At times, “The Neighbor’s Secret” almost reads like an interconnected collection of stories that come together in an Oh-My-God ending. Alison Heller uses a book group as the setting for a complicated story of women and their secrets. Alison Heller (Flatiron Books) The Neighbor’s Secret (Flatiron Books)Ĭolorado author L.
Wednesday, May 17th 2023 Home Page Close MenuĪ few mysteries to recommend this month: “The Neighbor’s Secret,” by L.
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