**insert eye roll** For example: when Kate recalled talking to her grandmother and said “I was so unprepared for what she told me, that to this day I regret not taping it” ha ha ha ha I said to myself: Ok! Ok! I’ll pay attention to what comes next! Too obvious. It was more annoying than suspenseful – a string of people end up dead, highly unconvincing coincidences, utterly preposterous connections between people… And the set ups! Sigh. When an old man strikes up a conversation with her on the steps of St Pauls in London, and attempts to tell her the story of a murder that has not been. I’ve read many stories in which the plot unravelled slowly and I’ve enjoyed them because I liked the characters - Kate Murray on the other hand seemed rather dull and two-dimensional to me, so instead of just going with the flow I just wanted to get to the point already. Paul's” I was hooked right away turns out that was the best part! I didn’t particularly enjoy the story, or the way the mystery unfolded. Every Secret Thing, which was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for Canadian Crime Novel, is the first of these, and it holds treasures for crime and historical. I like reading stories set in places I‘ve visited, so when in the synopsis I read: “When an old man strikes up a conversation with her on the steps of St. Thursday, at 9:40am Emma Cole is the pen name of historical fiction author Susanna Kearsley, under which she writes crime thrillers.
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