A Talent for Murder by Andrew Wilson - in 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared for 10 days and never spoke of what actually happened. This is an imagining of those days. Already distraught over her husband's infidelity, Agatha is at the train station when someone pushes her towards the tracks. Her rescuer turns out to be an odious man who blackmails her into murdering his wife. Told mostly in Agatha's voice with some chapters from other viewpoints. It's hard to imagine in this age of tell all the lengths people would go to avoid social embarrassment. I prefer the Doctor Who version of the missing 10 days.
3 stars
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All Is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker - I had some very ambivalent feelings reading this, it's quite graphic. Jenny is brutally attacked and then given a controversial drug to make her forget. When that doesn't work as planned she begins seeing a psychiatrist, the narrator of the story. Who turns out to be so unlikable that for a while I thought he was the perpetrator. I had to finish to see who the bad guy was but can't recommend this for it's graphic violence. Reese Witherspoon is supposedly making this into a movie.
2 stars
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The Last Mile by David Baldacci - Melvin Mars is just hours away from being executed for the murder of his parents when another man confesses, knowing details only the killer could know. That's when the newly formed FBI team with Amos Decker from Memory Man steps in. He has a feeling the confession is suspect but that Mars really is innocent. What follows is a tedious going over the steps again and again, lots of supposition, and a growing unbelievable plot line. Evidently Decker is the only one who can remember anything because the reader is not expected to remember things from page to page. Lots of repetition in this one. Think I'll give the series a rest.
2 stars
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