If you put Agatha Christie and Lee Child’s Make Me in a blender, you’d get Catherine Steadman’s Look In the Mirror. In alternating chapters, we follow three women on a harrowing experience complete with danger and deadly puzzles.
Nina Hepworth is grieving the death of her father, a brilliant but enigmatic professor, when she receives a letter from a legal firm informing her of a property her father has left her: a 3-bedroom Beachfront Estate in Pond Bay, Gorda, British Virgin Islands. Mystified because she knew nothing of her father’s activities in the Virgin Islands, Nina accepts the legal firm’s offer to fly her to tour the property.
Meanwhile, Maria, a Cornell Medical School dropout, has a contract to be a nanny for the super-rich. The money is better and the variety of exotic locations appeals to her. But as the days go by in the Virgin Island estate, Maria relaxes in the pool and the sauna waiting for the wealthy clients as her imperilment increases.
Lucinda, an executive type, is the linchpin of the story. She’s the beautiful, elegant contact between Nina and Maria who knows the perils that await them.
If you’re in the mood for a suspenseful, twisty, and mysterious novel with a nefarious plot featuring puzzles in the form of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, give Look In the Mirror a try. GRADE: B+
You had me at, “with a nefarious plot featuring puzzles in the form of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.” Onto the ever-increasing/never-diminishing TBR it goes.
When I look in the mirror, I find myself repeating the words “Candyman” and “Bloody Mary.’ I’d probably be much better off reading this book. Thanks, George.
Soon to be a mini-series starring Nicole Kidman?
I’m so not a T.S. Eliot on Nicole Kidman mini-series fan, so probably not.
Interesting. A good harvest of FFBs for me already, this morning.
On hold at the library!