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Wasn‘t a book for me. Took awhile to get into, then towards the end i got a little hooked. To then an ending I didn‘t quite understand 😔.

Two recent books I got, I will probadly read Shiver this month! #tbr

I‘ve been waiting awhile to get a hold of this one and it sounds good!...

I was banking on easy crime reading, and while all crime writing is designed to shock and unsettle I got much more than I bargained for here. This story about domestic violence was equal parts quietly unsettling, horrifying, gruesomely violent, and uncomfortable. While I didn‘t think the writing was anything exceptional, the narrative left me feeling sick in a way a lot of crime writing isn‘t able to.

When Katie Straw‘s body is pulled from the river, the women at the refuge she has been working at believe she has been murdered. The police on the case say it‘s suicide. Another great read, this looks at life in a Women‘s Refuge, why they left their abusive partners, and why so many go back. It‘s not a straightforward murder mystery. I would have happily read more about the women in the refuge. The police are predictably dinosaurs 🤷🏼‍♀️

Thankyou @jhod . What a stunner of a cover & beautifully bound book. ...And a thriller ! Nice one Jessica 👍🏻 Thanks so much. I hope you are ok & hanging in there through all this XXX Cathy

Katie is found dead and the police are investigating whether it was murder or suicide. I so wanted to like this book, as domestic violence is such an important subject and I hoped that it would be an education.

However, having worked for a women‘s charity, I found the depiction of the refuge to be inaccurate and the manager was a caricature of a militant feminist. The policeman was also caricatured as a near-retirement ‘dinosaur‘(cont)

Just finished The Keeper by Jessica Moor. I couldn‘t put it down. Moor created a cast of believable characters in a horrific situation.
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This book may trigger some readers so know it contains violence against women.
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It‘s one of those books where the fictional world collides with the real world. It‘s a realistic plot about a possible suicide or is it murder? And I found myself seeing the characters as real people.

Starting this tonight! Murder mysteries are my jam.