The Practice of Deceit

A little odd in places but otherwise it held my interest and made me stay up past my bedtime to finish reading it, to figure out what happened. Slightly anticlimactic but 🤷🏼‍♀️......more

This was a really well written book but disappointing to me in the end. I read this as one of a list of recommendations in an article on “31 Psychological Thrillers That Play With Your Head,” so with that kind of expectation going in, it’s a lot for a book to live up to. Two of my favorites have got......more

This reminded me of Fatal Attraction, only with a divorce at the story's center instead of an affair. Elizabeth Benedict wrote the story from a man's POV, which I imagine was tricky to do, and that was done well. The characters are well-developed and unique, and the methods by which Eric Lavender, t......more

I got as far as Chapter 5 before calling it quits. The author gets points for a decent writing style, but I’m just not invested enough in the characters to tolerate the ridiculously slow one in which the plot unfolds. Womanizer stumbles into relationship with charming maternal divorcee, just wasn’t......more

Kept me Going I love psychological thrillers. It’s so hard to find one that isn’t a ‘been there, done that’ and predictable. No kidnappings, bloodshed in this one. The main character’s torment how he dealt with it made it un-putdownable.......more