Hope you didn't miss my interview with Jennifer Sadera last week! She's back again this week with my review of I Know She Was There. And take a moment to enter the giveaway. This could be a holiday gift...to you!
More About I Know She Was There
Be careful what you see when you shouldn’t be looking.
Residents of the posh Upstate New York neighborhood of Deer Crossing enjoy all the amenities wealth provides. From drive-up dog-grooming to monthly botox parties, these lucky suburbanites have everything they could ever want. And one thing they don’t. Stalker Caroline Case, who wheels her infant along their streets each night with just one goal...to spy on anyone too careless or too foolish to close their window blinds.
Convinced the owners of the impressive homes are living a dream existence, the troubled new mom hopes to escape her working-class life by prying secrets from the unsuspecting. But the fairy tale twists into a nightmare when she sees something she shouldn’t. Something that shatters her illusions about the people in the privileged community she’s obsessed with, even as she begins to doubt what she saw.
As Caroline investigates the event, shocking secrets are laid bare, and nothing is as it seems. She knows she must prove something sinister occurred in Deer Crossing or risk letting someone get away with murder.
More About Jennifer Sadera
Jennifer Sadera began her writing career just out of college as a junior copywriter at book publisher NAL before transitioning to the editorial departments of national women’s magazines Woman’s World, Redbook, and Beauty Digest. She’d already established herself as a freelance writer and blogger when she decided to follow her true passion: creating novels. She is an active member of International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, and Sisters in Crime; her writing has earned her multiple awards at Atlanta Writers Conferences and a fellowship at the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. I Know She Was There is Jennifer’s debut psychological suspense novel.
When not writing, Jennifer can be found gardening, traveling, or reading anything she can get her hands on. She is blessed with CJ, her husband of many years, two adult children, Amanda and Ryan, and two adorable rescue grand dogs named Sunny and Moonie.
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Thoughts on I Know She Was There
This book is divided into two parts. For Part One (166 pages) you follow along as the story unfolds. Was there a murder? Who was murdered? Are people acting guilty because they're a murderer or for some other reason? Will Caroline, who wanders the streets of the neighborhood with her restless baby be able to unravel it? Jennifer Sadera sets a riveting scene, playing with the power of light and shadow, calling on every one of your senses and creating horrifying glimpses that will burrow inside your brain.
Then Part Two starts and you realize that every thought you had is suspect. With a blockbuster piece of new information, you will have to reevaluate every detail, every event, every conversation, every character. Is anyone what they seemed?
This book did any amazing job of gripping my attention and then flipping the mystery so nothing is as it seemed. This thriller gives you equal parts psychological riddle and physical action. It left me breathless. Please tell me there's another Sadera thriller in the works.
A Little Extra
I do love a little sweet treat (OK, I love a big sweet treat). So I couldn't resist sharing Jennifer's recipe for her Nana's Nilla Wafer Cheesecake Bites and a word of advice: always visit an author's website. Authors are generous souls who share things like recipes, book club questions, short stories featuring their characters. You never know what treasures you'll find if you just take time to visit.
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YES!!!! So glad you loved this amazing book. Can you tell I read it myself and loved it? Can't wait to read more by this great author!