Helpful Score: 1
When I saw this book from author Emily Arsenault on my Vine selections, I had to get it. I absolutely loved her last psycological suspense novel In Search of the Rose Notes: A Novel. This one sounded great as I love most of the classic country female singers. I won't go into the plot too much as the other reviewers have covered it numerous times.
To make a long story short the plot surrounds two female, college friends who are now long out of college and they are both married and have their own lives. One is going through a bitter divorce, the other is preparing for her first child. As in "In Search of the Rose Notes", both of the women are a little different and oddball by small town standards. One of them has written a book and is about to write another when she dies. Or was she killed? There are clues, recordings and signs that help Jamie to piece together the mystery of her friend's death and also the death of her friend's mother.
If you are familiar with "In Search of the Rose Notes" by this author, this is the same kind of slower moving character study and suspense with the facts slowly being discovered. If you like this type of suspense you will really enjoy this book.
To make a long story short the plot surrounds two female, college friends who are now long out of college and they are both married and have their own lives. One is going through a bitter divorce, the other is preparing for her first child. As in "In Search of the Rose Notes", both of the women are a little different and oddball by small town standards. One of them has written a book and is about to write another when she dies. Or was she killed? There are clues, recordings and signs that help Jamie to piece together the mystery of her friend's death and also the death of her friend's mother.
If you are familiar with "In Search of the Rose Notes" by this author, this is the same kind of slower moving character study and suspense with the facts slowly being discovered. If you like this type of suspense you will really enjoy this book.
The book combines an interesting history of country music singers with a double-murder investigation. When Gretchen Waters, the author of Tammyland, dies unexpectedly, her pregnant friend, Jamie Madden, becomes her "literary executor." Jamie finds enough disturbing information in Gretchen's files to undertake an investigation into Gretchen's death and uncovers a "cold case" along the way. The information about the lives of the country music icons is the most interesting part of this book for me since I previously only knew their names. The investigation into the murders became somewhat tedious. It is a book that is easily read, and may be fascinating for devoted country music fans.
