Novel Nerd Blog - Book Reviews by Smitha

  MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW This is cute and fast read novel to uplift your Christmas spirit this December with the town showing its festive side. Gabrielle Jacques and her beloved 24 year old granddaughter Elodie plans to spend Christmas and celebrate Gabby's 70th birthday in Antibes Juan les Pins for the first time in forty years in France, the town she was born. Gabby thought it is better to talk to Elodie about both her past and future that would be easy if they were in France and as she was planning to leave her the inheritance to Elodie. Elodie was a journalist writing full time novels in her spare time and completed her media degree. Gabby was more of a surrogate mother to Elodie growing up in the same house in Devonshire, as her mother abandoned her and never promised to return. Elodie did not know that her grandmother was always there for her whenever she needed the support. As they reach France and make their stay comfortable at an Airbnb, Christmas fun was definit...

 MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW Wow, stunning plotline and my second book of Ellery Kane that I have read. I was totally engrossed by this absolutely gripping psychological thriller story by Kane with lots of suspense in every chapter. The novel begins with Theo Copeland, a stay at home  dad to his daughter Abby, a lead singer and guitarist and his corporate lawyer wife Cassandra being questioned by the San Francisco police at their home for a homicide committed in their own building they leased out on 865 church street. A homeless man discovers a dead body of a girl bludgeoned to death in the dumpster behind Theo's studio. Theo and Cassandra are left horrified with the incident. The detectives gather at the spot questioning the tenants. The girl who was murdered was Elise, the Hamilton's Nanny. Meanwhile, Theo Copeland gets arrested for assaulting his neighbor Shaun De Marco in his front yard, punching him in the face and destroying a drone he possessed. Theo...