Her lifelong friend Sal introduces her to a ‘fixer’, and Marin’s life spirals from there.
She will do anything to have her marriage back – and she makes a disastrous ( and criminal) decision. When Marin learns of this affair, she breaks, and her mind goes into dangerous territory. Not knowing his fate was torture for her and she couldn’t share her feelings with her husband, as he was dealing with Sebastian’s disappearance in his own way…. For they never found him… no ransom demands, no leads, nothing. Though she and her husband Derek are both wealthy business people, Marin finds that there is little in life worth anything without her beloved son. Her marriage has turned distant and cold. She has unsuccessfully tried to end her own life, and is still entertaining thoughts of suicide. In just a few seconds he is gone! Now, fourteen months later, Marin is a wreck and depends on prescription pills to get her through each day. Three days before Christmas, at Seattle’s very busy Pike Place Market, Marin Machado lets go of her four year old son’s hand to answer a text on her phone. With characters that were not that likeable, I was surprised that they kept me riveted to their story, but they definitely did. What a page turner! I thought at first that this would be like all the other ‘abducted child’ thrillers, but it couldn’t have been more different. I always fulfill my review commitments, even if it is not always in a timely fashion.) I’ve had a ‘hold’ on this title for quite some time and my hold finally became available. Overall! I liked this fascinating and fast moving mystery novel.Īlso Read: Within These Wicked Walls By Lauren Blackwood | Retelling of Jane Eyre Book Review Podcast (All Her Little Secrets By Wanda M.“ Sometimes someone else’s pain is the only thing that makes yours better“ (I downloaded this title from Minotaur Books via Edelweiss but the book expired before I had a chance to read it – SO… at long last, I ended up reading a library copy on the Libby app. There are additionally missed opportunity, particularly in getting to know the personality of Juice, a companion of Ellice’s sibling, and her closest companion, Grace, better. I like the ending, however there were still some last details that weren’t tied up. I was shocked by a portion of the things that came out with regards to the murder, the intention, and the killer. It was difficult to put down until I could find the entire story of what was happening at Houghton. Morris is an exceptionally tense mystery novel. In the current day, Ellice encounters both obvious and more subtle discrimination as the one and only Black in the legal department of Houghton Transportation.Īll Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. A few of the things she encounters are extremely upsetting and difficult to read.
The books also has a few chapters that return to the past and uncover portions of her childhood. After finding a shocking crime one morning while arriving for work, Ellice’s profession, as well as mysteries from past, are in danger.Īll Her Little Secrets is told for the most part in the present from Ellice’s point-of-view. Presently working in the legal division of Houghton Transportation, she is one and only Black person in a prevalently white – and poisonous – working environment. This springboard, alongside hard work, willpower, and isolating herself from past, gave Ellice an Ivy League schooling and a career as a lawyer.
All her little secrets full#
Thanks to a unfailing help of Miss Vera and full scholarship to boarding school. In the year 1979, Ellice Littlejohn got away from small town Chillicothe, Georgia.
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