★★★☆☆ Meredith Maggs hasn't left her home in Glasgow in over three years. Her isolation results from a trauma that’s caused her to build a fortress to protect herself from the overwhelming world outside. Her carefully constructed world is complete with a remote job, online friendships, challenging jigsaws, and the company of her cat.
Tag: Fiction
Celine by Peter Heller
★★★★☆ Celine Watkins is a 68-year-old private investigator who specializes in helping to reunite families. Gabriela Lamont, a fellow Sarah Lawrence alumna, hires Celine to find out what happened when her father, a National Geographic photographer, mysteriously disappeared twenty years before. The novel delves into Celine’s past as much as it focuses on the present-day investigation into why Paul Lamont vanished from the Wyoming wilderness.
The Wife Upstairs
★★★★☆ I’ve been on an escapist thriller reading spree lately. With their Dateline-inspired storylines, I haven’t been able to get enough of creepy, relationship-gone-wrong novels this summer.