Saturday 21 January 2017

Mark Of The Loon by Molly Greene + Free book


Mark Of The Loon by Molly Greene
Self published in 2012.

Where to buy this book:
Download the ebook free from Amazon.comAmazon.co.uk

How I got this book:
Received as a reward for signing up to the Death Lies and Duct Tape newsletter.

Death Lies and Duct Tape is a collaboration between fourteen thriller authors across both sides of the Atlantic and another of the athors involved, Ian Sutherland, told me more about it: "We came together because we are all students of Mark Dawson’s courses on Advertising for Authors. We decided that a collaborating on this box set would allow us to pool our resources and slowly build up to launching the boxset with a loud crescendo in May 2017. At 99c/99p, the box set gives readers a great opportunity to sample our books and hopefully discover at least one (hopefully fourteen!) new authors to follow going forward. We’re all incredibly excited about the project and are loving how each of us brings different skills to the project. It really has been a team effort."

You can find out more about Death Lies and Duct Tape on their website and everyone who signs up for the newsletter will be sent one of the fourteen books, chosen at random, as a thank you.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Madison Boone is keen to buy a fabulous stone cottage in the country, and she nixes her budding relationship with Coleman Welles to do it. But once the renovation begins, the property's long-buried secret threatens to derail everything. Can her friends help solve the mystery?
Mark of the Loon, the first of the Gen Delacourt mystery series, is the skillful combination of history, mystery, and romance in a novel that explores choices, taking risks, dealing with loss, deep, satisfying, unconditional friendships - and introduces Genevieve Delacourt as an impressive amateur sleuth!

Mark Of The Loon is a novel of female friendship and sisterhood and I thoroughly enjoyed joining its four friends, Madison, Genny, Gabi and Anna for a time. Madison buys a new house so there is lots of interior decor chat as well as a very real sense of strong relationships between the friends. Romantic relationships also have a part to play and I liked the depiction of a burgeoning romance between Madison and a college professor she meets, Cole. It's all sweet and chaste which fits with the novel's cosy vibe.

Our mystery revolves around the house itself and Greene sets up the suspense slowly so Mark Of The Loon could initially just be women's fiction, however subtle disturbances and odd occurrences are dripped in to unsettle the reader. The house is a fascinating setting and I wouldn't mind living there myself! I did find the ultimate unveiling to be far-fetched and overly rushed so, to me, it came across as disappointingly silly, but the episode is so brief that, although I suppose it should be the highlight, I found myself thinking of it merely as an aberration before we returned to the 'real' storyline!


Search Lit Flits for more:
Books by Molly Greene / Women's fiction / Books from America

6 comments:

  1. What a shame the unveiling didn't quite live up to your expectations. Although, if I'm honest, the title makes the book sound a bit silly.
    Thanks for reviewing.
    #ToTT

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    1. Yes, it does! The Loon of the title is a species of bird, but we don't find this out straight away so I was expecting the appearance of a crazy person!

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  2. This one sounds interesting enough to put it on my TBR list. thank you.

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  4. I think anthologies are great - love authors getting together. A lot of power in numbers :)

    Sounds like a great read (agree with Suzie about the title - it wouldn't draw me to read it). Fab review.

    Thanks for linking.

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    1. Thanks Shaz, the set is due out in May and I hope it does well :-)

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