STILL WATER, by Amy Stuart
Simon and Schuster - 2018Narrated by Madeleine Maby
My Rating (out of 5)
⭐⭐⭐
A good thriller with a solid story line,
Clare was an abused woman who escaped her husband, and ends up working for a private investigator, searching for other missing women. She finds herself in the town of High River acting the part of the worried friend of Sally - a runaway battered woman and her son who have gone missing from a home that offers refuge to women fleeing abusive relationships. As Clare investigates she learns that she is not the only one hiding from her past, and most of the people she meets in High River are well practiced at the art of deception.
While the story line was solid, and the writing was generally good, my one complaint would be that it very much felt like the "middle" book it was. The characters seemed to be a little too dependent on the last book - STILL MINE, and could have done with a little more development to reunite character and reader, and while the basic answers of this book were resolved, there is no real sense of closure. Not that there was a little, teasing, sniglet to carry forward and tempt you to read the next book (as is common), just a general sense of "not done". I suspect that this series might be more enjoyable back to back than after long periods between books.
A good sophomore effort.
The narration was clear, pleasant, and had suitable range in characters and emotions.
Happy Reading,
Christine
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