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  • A Mother Would Know

  • Written by: Amber Garza
  • Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
  • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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A Mother Would Know

Written by: Amber Garza
Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
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Publisher's Summary

“Do we ever really know our children? Amber Garza invites readers to untangle the web of a family just like yours—or are they? This thriller will have you triple-guessing yourself.”—Eliza Jane Brazier, author of If I Disappear

A woman questions everything she knows about her son when a local woman is found dead.

Valerie has been forgetting things. Her daughter worries about her being on her own in her big Victorian house—one rumored to be haunted after a tragedy decades earlier—and truth be told, she is a little lonely. With few options, she asks her adult son to move home, but it’s not quite the reunion she hoped for. Hudson is taciturn, moody, and frequently gone.

The neighbors already hold a grudge against Hudson, and they aren’t happy about his return. When a young woman is found murdered a block away, suspicion falls on him immediately, without a shred of evidence. While Valerie fights to defend her son, she begins to wonder who she really invited into her home.

It’s a horrible thing for a mother to even think...but is it possible she’s enabled a monster? A monster she is living with, alone?

©2022 Amber Garza (P)2022 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited

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Predictable but...

The plot is immediately easy to figure out, but it's actually incredibly clever and could have been really good if written differently. There is a plot twist to the plot twist that's not entirely obvious, but it's not a shock, either. The writer does too much work to mislead the reader (to create a double twist) that it falls flat, but what is most frustrating about the tactic is that very simple tweaks could have been applied to a particular narrative choice around voice to make the plot shocking and far more suspenseful. This is a great plot that was wasted on an over diligent (detail obsessed) writer. The narration was good, however.

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