Aggie Blum Thompson

This is a quick read. The author does not waste much time before Allie's life is upended and spiraling out of control. I could understand why people including Allie's husband, Mark was doubting her. When he would ask her a question, she would withhold information. Yet, I did feel bad for Allie.

I kept trying to figure out who was responsible for all of the bad things happening to Allie. Just when I would think I had it figured out, there would be a twist. You could say that I was really invested in this story. I was not let down by the ending. This book does not read like a debut novel. Looking forward to reading more books by this author.… (plus d'informations)

What a super fun read! This is a twisty, suspenseful thriller that I read in one sitting. I couldn't put it down! Allie is an established photographer who has a great job, wonderful marriage, and loving little boy. She lives in a very clicky neighborhood where mothers constantly monitor each other, gossip, and essentially try to outdo each other. Allie has a dark secret past that not even her husband knows about, and she moved into the neighborhood hoping to bury her past and start over. But when a strange man calls her by her former nickname and then assaults her at a party, Allie begins questioning who might have access to her past. Then the man who attacked her is killed and the police are knocking on her door. She discovers that someone has been impersonating her online and all kinds of nasty photographs and rumors go viral causing serious damage to her reputation-socially and professionally. Even her husband begins to question the truth about his wife. As the police look for the killer, Allie becomes a suspect and it takes all her courage to reach into her past for clues as to who is framing her and trying to destroy her life.… (plus d'informations)

ALL THE DIRTY SECRETS is a convoluted mystery, meaning it's more than just a mystery; it's mystery upon mystery upon mystery, and that's the best kind of mystery. So I appreciated it. But it wasn't for me. That is not to say anything negative about this book. It would have been for me back when I was in high school. It would have been a four-star book then.

Although this is one novel, it is made up of more than one story/mystery. Mainly, there are three, two taking place during beach week in 1994, one during present-day beach week. All three are about teenagers who drowned or are assumed to have drowned. And there's also another mystery of a man who was a track coach in 1994 at the teenagers' private school and is somehow now the head of that school.

The problem for me is that much of ALL THE DIRTY SECRETS is about teenagers, a subject that often bores me nowadays. Although the mysteries are told from the perspectives of different characters, including Liza as an adult, she is trying to solve mysteries that happened when she was a teenager.

This book would have been more appropriate for me when I, too, was a teenager.… (plus d'informations)