TUESDAY EXCERPTS: “ONE LITTLE SECRET”

Welcome to another Tuesday celebrating bookish events: First Chapter/Intros, originally hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea and now hosted by I’d Rather Be at the Beach; and Teaser Tuesdays hosted by The Purple Booker.

Today’s feature is One Little Secret, by Cate Holahan.

 

 

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Intro:  (Prologue)

Drowning can happen in two inches of water.  All the parenting books she’d consumed during her pregnancies had contained that warning, often on the first page of the bath-time section.  Children could die in a kiddie pool.  The sink.  The toilet.  Life began in an amniotic sac, but it could end in the shallows.

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Teaser:  Jenny cursed under her breath.  Either her neighbors were toasting and Ben was calling her back to clink glasses, or he wanted to discuss what had happened after she’d given him that last injection.The thought of doing either made Jenny want to sprint in the opposite direction.(p. 60).

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Synopsis:  Everyone has a secret. For some, it’s worth dying to protect. For others, it’s worth killing.

The glass beach house was supposed to be the getaway that Susan needed. Eager to help her transplanted family set down roots in their new town—and desperate for some kid-free conversation—she invites her new neighbors to join in on a week-long sublet with her and her workaholic husband.

Over the course of the first evening, liquor loosens inhibitions and lips. The three couples begin picking up on the others’ marital tensions and work frustrations, as well as revealing their own. But someone says too much. And the next morning one of the women is discovered dead on the private beach.

Town detective Gabby Watkins must figure out who permanently silenced the deceased. As she investigates, she learns that everyone in the glass house was hiding something that could tie them to the murder, and that the biggest secrets of all are often in plain sight for anyone willing to look.

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Would you keep reading?  I can’t wait to learn more.

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