Welcome to another Tuesday celebrating bookish events: First Chapter/Intros, now hosted by Socrates Book Reviews; and Teaser Tuesdays hosted by The Purple Booker.
Today’s feature is a NetGalley ARC that will be released on July 5, 2022: Reputation, by Sarah Vaughan.
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Intro:
(Prologue, December 8, 2021)
The body lay at the bottom of the stairs. An untidy heap in this house that had been gentrified beyond all recognition. A jumble of clothes just waiting to be tidied away.
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Teaser:
The feeling of being watched continued that evening. I hadn’t cycled—my bike had a puncture—and both Claire and Julia had evening engagements, so I took a cab and tried to relax in its relative privacy, resisting the cabbie’s eyes in the rear mirror. (31%).
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Synopsis:
The bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal—now a hit Netflix series—returns with a new psychological thriller about a politician whose less-than-perfect personal life is thrust into the spotlight when a body is discovered in her home.
As a politician, Emma has sacrificed a great deal for her career—including her marriage and her relationship with her daughter, Flora.
A former teacher, the glare of the spotlight is unnerving for Emma, particularly when it leads to countless insults, threats, and trolling as she tries to work in the public eye. As a woman, she knows her reputation is worth its weight in gold but as a politician, she discovers it only takes one slip-up to destroy it completely.
Fourteen-year-old Flora is learning the same hard lessons at school as she encounters heartless bullying. When another teenager takes her own life, Emma lobbies for a new law to protect women and girls from the effects of online abuse. Now, Emma and Flora find their personal lives uncomfortably intersected…but then the unthinkable happens.
A man is found dead in Emma’s home. A man she had every reason to be afraid of and to want gone. Fighting to protect her reputation, and determined to protect her family at all costs, Emma is pushed to the limits as the worst happens and her life is torn apart.
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Would you keep reading?
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SNOW SPARKS 
Oh yes, I would read more, in fact I’m curious enough to want a copy. Hope you love it. My pick is a bit creepy too….http://bibliophilebythesea.blogspot.com/2022/05/first-chapter-first-paragraph-tuesday_24.html
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Thanks, Diane, I really loved the author’s previous book, and this one is holding me captive! Enjoy yours.
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I’d definitely continuing reading. It sounds like my type of book. Lots of suspense.
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Thanks, Yvonne, I am really glued to the pages!
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