Secrets to the Grave

this book will keep you on your toes until the very twisted ending . ( )

Read the second in this series. One again it was enjoyable. I'll wait to see if the newest one follows too many similar plot lines. ( )

I mostly enjoyed listening to this book. The mystery was pretty good, though I was pretty sure who did it about half-way through. I think what I didn't like the most was all the time spent on the feelings of the main characters for each other. It's a murder mystery, not a love story! Well anyway, that is what I was listening to it for. Also a surprising number of people naively make the worst choices possible. It's amazing how often that happens.

There is a brutal murder of a local artist and an unsuccessful attempt on her 4 year old daughter who witnessed it. Everyone is shocked and no one can think of any reason for the heinous act. The more the police dig into the lives of those involved the more secrets come out and motives start to abound. When the artists friend disappears the stakes are raised.

Decent book, good book to listen to on a commute to help pass the time and the miles. ( )

AWESOME! ( )

Marissa Fordham had a past full of secrets, a present full of lies. Everyone knew of her, but no one knew her.

When Marissa is found brutally murdered, with her young daughter, Haley, resting her head on her mother's bloody breast, she sends the idyllic California town of Oak Knoll into a tailspin. Already on edge with the upcoming trial of the See- No-Evil killer, residents are shocked by reports of the crime scene, which might not have been discovered for days had it not been for a chilling 911 call: a small child's voice saying, "My daddy hurt my mommy."

My Thoughts:

This is the second book in the ‘Oak Knoll’ series. I felt that I didn’t quite enjoy this book as much as I did the first one. My reason being is that the book hadn’t got the spark the first one did which is the passion between the hero and heroine.

When I pick up a book by Tami Hoag, alongside with Karen Rose, Sandra Brown and Erica Spindler I know what I am going to get, a mystery with a romance. The hero and heroine will play cat and mouse with each other then finally there will be few sex scences. With this book being second in a series the hero and heroine are now married and there is no romance.

The story was ok, just an average crime read, but I missed the romance. I did gues who the killer was towards the very end so that was a positive that I was kept guessing. Tami Hoag will always be an author I would seek out many times but enjoy the books more when there is a romance. ( )