No One Will Miss Her - Kat Rosenfeld

Thriller

Rating: 9/10

I was a few hours into this read, doing something entirely forgettable, when a realization of what might be going on in this book hit me like a jolt. And I was hooked.  I needed to discover if I was right.  And that my friends, is for me to know and you to find out.

This book is a standout thriller among a profusion of books with blurbs that make that very claim. A truth evidenced by the fact that I read it in a single day.  And as much of the written word as I consume, I rarely achieve that particular feat of readerly fixation.

“My name is Lizzie and if you’re reading this, I’m already dead.  Yes, dead. Beyond the veil, passed on and gone.  A fresh minted angel in the arms of Jesus if you believe in that sort of thing.  A fresh pile of chow for the worms if you don’t.”

And with that opener, can you blame me?

If it hasn’t hit you yet, Lizzie, our dead women, is narrating this tale from the grave.  And as she tells us her story, the one that comes before meeting her gory end, she is snarky. blunt and whip smart and I loved her! She has no illusions about being missed and fully expects that the inhabitants of the small town she grew up in will say she had it coming.  And they may be right.

The author doesn’t waste time exposing the killers to the reader.  A rich woman and her Ponzi schemer of a husband are safely ensconced in their mansion when they awake from the horrors of the night before.  And for a while they believe that they might actually get away with it. At least until the unraveling begins.

Without spoiling any of the fun of this book and its twists and turns, the author brilliantly wielded her pen to give us two women, as disparate from each other as its possible to be. Illustrating that in our relationships, we often give each other exactly what the other is looking for.  And often, that is anything but the truth. And maybe slipping into a persona not true our nature is all the reason we need to hate each other.

It’s books like these that reinvigorate my faith in the genre!

Book Pairing(s): Night Shift by Alex Finlay, Final Girls Support Group by Grady Hendrix, First Day Of Spring by Nancy Tucker