Picked up at the Goodwill.

Released at a BC meeting in Colorado Springs, CO.

I picked up this book from the BC meetup at Fargo Pizza last night.

"...Jean, a photographer, arrives off the coast of Smuttynose Island, off the coast of Maine, to research a century-old crime."

In March 1873, two Norwegian-born women who lived on the desolate Smuttynose Island were brutally murdered. Maren Hontvedt, a sister of one of the victims, survived by hiding in a sea cave until dawn.

I broke one of my rules when I read this book: "If you don't like it in the first fifty pages, quit reading." I kept reading through the end, and I'm very sorry I did. I liked Maren's memoir better than Jean's narrative. Both ended badly.

I hope the next reader enjoys this book more than I did.

I offered this book as part of booklady331's Already Book Crossed VBB.

I am sending this book to minesayn as part of the Already Book Crossed VBB. Enjoy!

Received in the mail today after choosing it from the ABC VBB book box...thanks rhythmbiscuit for sending me the book. It's greatly appreciated. I enjoy this author and am sure that I'll like this one as well.

Anita Shreve's novels are pretty can't-put-it-down good, and this one took it s time to finally hit the mark somewhere in the last 60 pages or so.

To be honest, the story was intriguing: Jean, her husband Thomas, their daughter Billie are spending time on a sailboat with Rich, her brother-in-law and his new girlfriends Adaline. Jean, a photographer, who is researching a century-old crime.

As the present plays out with suspicions of infidelity and jealousy, the past is also revealed with similar issues. What was difficult was following the abrupt switches between the past and present. At times, it made the reading difficult.

"No two persons ever read the same book."--Edmund Wilson

Sharing this book with the wider world--enjoy!
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Via media mail along with a couple other books (two promised, and two others),

Received today.
Thanks for sending this my way!

I went to Goodreads to look up this book and in the summary, there was this - "researches the lurid and sensational ax murder of two women in 1873" - Yep, that's enough for me!
Adding to Mt. Toobie.

I seldom say this, but ... the movie was better.

This could have been a good story but the way that it was written was so confusing, and I had to keep flipping back because I'd get lost on whose point of view was being told, that I found it more annoying than pleasant to read.

Off on a journey in my Facebook Friends Invitation Only Bookbox.

Took this out of book_drunkard's Facebook Friends Invitation Only Bookbox. Looks like a good one to read, during a dark and stormy night. Thanks for sharing!