pickThe third and last book in the Coughli trilogy. Just as Joe, we start to wonder who is up to kill him and why. Can he (we?) trust the people around him (us)? I maybe should've skimmed through the previous novels to get allt he details, but the book is readable without deeper kowledge of the previous books. Loved Joe's son and wonder what happened to him after this book ends. Dark, bloody, and lots of trigger warnings. Mafia stuff, you know.
pickThe friend who gave me this book indicated it was a bit of a challenging read, but I didn't find it to be so. I mowed right through this book, it was a really engaging plot and characters, I very much enjoyed it!
"They'd driven all the way to Mr. Styles's house before Anna realized that her father was nervous." This book has been on my TBR shelf for nearly a year, a gift from a friend. I'm now finally getting to it and what a wonderful opening sentence! It bodes well, I'm looking forward to the novel.
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so-soThis debut suspense novel is the story of a group of folks stranded on Trouble Island, a stop-off place for prohibition criminals between Canada and the US (Lake Erie). Pretty much all of them are keeping secrets and are morally gray characters with plenty of double-crossing going on. The story is told through the eyes of Aurelia Escalante, the maid to the wife of the powerful criminal prohibition gangster Eddie McGee, who has been basically 🔻
