Monday's Lie by Jamie, Mason
287 Pages
"Dee Aldrich rebelled against her off-center upbringing when she
married the most conventional man she could imagine: Patrick, her college
sweetheart. But now, years later, her marriage is falling apart and she's
starting to believe that her husband has his eye on a new life...a life without
her, one way or another. Haunted by memories of her late mother Annette, a
former covert operations asset, Dee reaches back into her childhood to resurrect
her mother's lessons and the "spy games" they played together, in which Dee
learned memory tricks and, most importantly, how and when to lie. But just as
she begins determining the course of the future, she makes a discovery that will
change her life: her mother left her a lot of money and her own husband seems to
know more about it than Dee does. Now, before it's too late, she must
investigate her suspicions and untangle conspiracy from coincidence, using her
mother's advice to steer her through the blind spots. The trick, in the end,
will be in deciding if a "normal life" is really what she wants at all."
I enjoyed reading about the relationship between Dee and her mother and felt that the book could have subsisted just on this level but the author also added a mystery to the plot which races to a climatic end.
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