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Monday's Lie
Gallery: S. & S. Feb. 2015. 304p. ISBN 9781476774459. $24.99; ebk. ISBN 9781476774473. F
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Annette Aldrich raised Dee and her brother, Simon, with an incandescence and fierceness offset by her job as a covert ops agent, but as an adult, Dee lives a calculatedly ordinary life with her husband, Patrick. When Annette dies, leaving Dee a tidy sum of money, it seems to be the catalyst for Patrick's increasingly odd behavior. Dee suspects that Patrick wants out of the marriage and that he might go to extraordinary lengths to make a clean break. Dee is nothing if not her mother's daughter, and she's not afraid to put Annette's lessons to good use. But is the truth, and its shattering implications, more than she can handle?
VERDICT Mason's superb and characteristically offbeat second novel (after Three Graves Full) delivers an irresistible and complex protagonist who, in spite of a carefully crafted life, finds herself longing for something more. A marriage in peril, a mother's unconventional legacy, and, of course, spycraft are all elements of a suspenseful and tense narrative that will entrance readers from page one. Sly, poignant, and beautifully written, this should especially satisfy fans of thrillers like Chris Pavone's The Expats.
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