Friday Focus: The Friday 56 & Book Beginnings #95

It's Friday . . . time to share book excerpts with:

• Book Beginnings on Fridays hosted by Rose City Reader, where bloggers share the first sentence or more of a current read, as well as initial thoughts about the sentence(s), impressions of the book, or anything else that the opening inspires.  
• The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice, where you grab a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% of an ebook), find one or more interesting sentences (no spoilers), and post them.

Today I'm featuring Where They Found Her by Kimberly McCreight, borrowed from the library.

 

  

Beginning:  Prologue

It isn't until afterward that I think about the bag or the bloody towels stuffed inside.  They're too big to bury, but I can't just leave them behind.  Maybe I should have been better prepared.  Thought more about the details.  But it's hard to be ready for something you never imagined you'd do.

 

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Page 56:  "'Or, you know, maybe they printed that because that's all they know.  Not everything is some conspiracy." 

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My thoughts:  After reading McCreight's first novel, Reconstructing Amelia, I was pleased to discover her new novel.  McCreight is a good storyteller, and a welcome addition to the psychological suspense genre.

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From Goodreads:  From the author of the New York Times bestseller and 2014 Edgar and Anthony nominee Reconstructing Amelia comes another harrowing, gripping novel that marries psychological suspense with an emotionally powerful story about a community struggling with the consequences of a devastating discovery.

At the end of a long winter, in bucolic Ridgedale, New Jersey, the body of an infant is discovered in the woods near the town’s prestigious university campus. No one knows who the baby is, or how her body ended up out there. But there is no shortage of opinions.

When freelance journalist, and recent Ridgedale transplant, Molly Anderson is unexpectedly called upon to cover the story for the Ridegdale Reader, it’s a risk, given the severe depression that followed the loss of her own baby. But the bigger threat comes when Molly unearths some of Ridgedale’s darkest secrets, including a string of unreported sexual assaults that goes back twenty years.

Meanwhile, Sandy, a high school dropout, searches for her volatile and now missing mother, and PTA president Barbara struggles to help her young son, who’s suddenly having disturbing outbursts.

Told from the perspectives of Molly, Barbara, and Sandy, Kimberly McCreight’s taut and profoundly moving novel unwinds the tangled truth about the baby’s death revealing that these three women have far more in common than they realized. And that their lives are more intertwined with what happened to the baby than they ever could have imagined.

 

 

 Which book are you reading now or about to start?

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