Overview

Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things.

Our Queen of Twists, bestselling author of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney, returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises.

Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth.

Edith may have been tricked into a nursing home, but at eighty-years-young, she’s planning her escape. Patience works there, cleaning messes and bonding with Edith, a kindred spirit. But Patience is lying to Edith about almost everything.

Edith’s own daughter, Clio, won’t speak to her. And someone new is about to knock on Clio’s door…and their intentions aren’t good.

With every reason to distrust each other, the women must solve a mystery with three suspects, two murders, and one victim. If they do, they might just find out what happened to the baby who disappeared, the mother who lost her, and the connections that bind them.

In the style of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors, Good Bad Girl is a thriller in which nobody can be trusted and the twists come fast and furious.

Review

Edith has been placed into a nursing home but she has no intention of staying there. She becomes very close to one of the cleaning ladies, Patience. Edith and Patience concoct a plan. But, then the care home’s administrator ends up dead in the elevator. Now all of a sudden everyone is a suspect.

Ok, I am in the minority again…but I found this book BRILLIANT! I know a lot of other reviews did not find this to be as thrilling as Daisy Darker . But this book is a completely different style. The way Alice Feeney meandered through the story (and yes it is a bit slow!) to come to this ending….geez! I knew it was going to come together, just didn’t expect it to be this way!

Alice tied all these characters together in a neat little bow, including the detective with the pink stipe in her hair. And no…I did not see that one coming!

Every single one of these characters are dysfunctional at best. Talk about terrible mother-daughter relationships. But, I can’t help but see the intelligence it took to come up with this plot.

The narrators, Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine are fantastic. I love when there is a great tag team!

Need a good mystery which will have you wondering how it is all going to tie together…THIS IS IT!

I received this novel from the publisher for a honest review.

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