Hillier is a masterful storyteller and the way she leads readers through Sebastian’s kidnapping and the emotional aftermath is worth the price of admission. Angry and hurt, Marin decides to solve the problem by getting rid of her husband’s lover, but that’s not an easy, or cheap task and a lot of things will happen that will alter Marin’s perspective. If losing her son shattered her life and took the thing she loved most from her, the infidelity is a monster that steps on the last shreds of her marriage. Unfortunately, instead of her son, the investigator finds that Derek is cheating on Marin with a 24-year-old art grad student with pink hair who works as a barista at a local coffee joint. to keep looking, and to look in places where the FBI didn’t look. Marin understands that the case is growing cold, so she hires a P.I. A year after the kidnapping, she wakes up regularly contemplating suicide, her husband Derek is distant, and the FBI search for her son has yielded no results. Then her son was kidnapped, and the fairytale life came crashing down. She was a successful businesswoman who ran a well-known chain of salons, she worked on the hair of pop superstars, had married her handsome, caring, and very rich college sweetheart, and she had a lovely son named Sebastian. Her latest novel, Little Secrets, is a superbly written thriller in which these elements coalesce into a taut, heartbreaking narrative that possesses an incredibly tense atmosphere and enough anger to lead to murder. She creates narratives packed with beautiful writing about horrible things, she has an understanding of human nature and psychology that borders on academic, and she understands that in fiction, much as in real life, small things can turn into gigantic problems. The elements that make her one of the best are clear and present in every one of her novels. Jennifer Hillier is one of the best in the business. In Jennifer Hillier’s riveting new thriller, a woman desperately tries to save her marriage in the face of overwhelming tragedy. All it takes to unravel a life is one little secret…
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