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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780821781654
ISBN number: 0821781650
Label: Zebra
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Page Count: 383
Printing Date: September 12, 2006
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I was all ready to dislike this book. I have never before read a book by Beverly Barton and I usually stick to authors that I have read before since I know their writing style and what type of story to expect. The only reason I picked-up this book was because of a good review, and I am glad that I did.
"What She Doesn't Know" begins with Jolie Royale coming home for her father's funeral, the father she has not seen in years because of his marriage to the woman he was sleeping with on the day Jolie's mother and aunt were murdered. The town assumed that it was a murder-suicide, but Jolie knew the man blamed and never believed he was capable of murdering her family.
Jolie comes home to a step-brother, Max, a step-sister, Mallory, and the woman who married her father only 9 months after her mother was murdered. There is a lot of anger and resentment all-around and no one hides it. Jolie and Max decide to look into the murder, and they find that for some, the past is bester left hidden because they all have secrets that they would kill to keep.
This book was so captivating that I finished it in one sitting. It had depth and there were so many different suspects that I had to get to the end to find out who the murderer really was. The relationship between Max and Jolie grew throughout the story, they found that things they once assumed about the other was not right and that they needed each other. I found myself rooting for them.
My only problem was the step-sister and the guy she dates. The jerk leaves her after sleeping with her and she is heart broken. It upsets me that at the very end of the book, we find out that he comes back to town and they are together again. If a jerk left me like he did to her, I would certainly not invite him back in my life!
Overall, this is a very good read and I hope that you take a chance to read it- You won't regret it. :)
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As a fan of Beverly Barton....the plot sounded good when reading the
purchased review ....but this falls flat.....not as good as some of her other writings.....the spoiled rich girl/woman line is just too common and
annoying.......if one wants to read about self-center spoiled women..
we can catch the tabloids on Paris Hilton....
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What She Doesn't Know centers around a twenty-year-old crime. Jolie Royale is the only survivor of the Belle Rose plantation massacre in which her mother, aunt, and Lemar a close family relation were murdered in what was thought to be a murder suicide. After being shot three times and left for dead fourteen year old Jolie recovered only to be sent away after another endeavor on her life.
What she saw and experienced that day has colored her life ever since. Estranged from her father she reluctantly comes home after almost twenty years to attend his funeral. Facing her fathers second family, whom she dislikes and distrusts, opens old wounds and brings to the surface her doubts about what really happened that horrific day in her newly inherited home, Belle Rose. Teaming up with a childhood friend, Theron, out to prove that his uncle wasn't responsible for the slaughter she is determined to put the past to rest.
Forced by circumstances to accept help from her once time crush Max Deveraux, now her step brother, Jolie's feelings for her unlikely alley very from suspecting him of murdering her mother to clear the way for his own mother, to blatant attraction.
Now I like all of the Beverly Barton books I've ever read. This one less then some others. With all the family secrets popping out of the closet they don't really examine the most likely people to have killed her family. They follow the outside clues of missing police files and bribery instead of looking into who actually had the best motive to kill any of the three people murdered. There are plenty of adulterous affairs to supply suspects and Jolie doesn't really investigate any of people involved. It seems strange to me.
But all in all, I liked this book. You have engaging fully formed characters and a story that is fast paced and engaging.
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I really enjoyed reading Jolie and Max's story. What I found to be just as interesting were the "mini" love stories of the secondary characters. Along with the book being a good love story, it was very suspenseful and kept me guessing to the end.
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At the tender age of fourteen, Jolie Royale had two traumatic events occur that forever altered the course of her life: She witnessed her father's liaison with his mistress, Georgette, and she discovered the lifeless bodies of her mother and aunt in their house (Belle Rose), right before the murderer shot three bullets into her and left her for dead. The police rule it as a double-murder-suicide, stating that Lemar, a grey man and long time resident of Belle Rose, murdered the two sisters in a jealous rage because of his love for Jolie's aunt. And to fuel an already precarious situation with his daughter, Jolie's father married Georgette six months after her mother's death. That was enough for Jolie to cut him out of her life.
Fast-forward twenty years and Jolie is now a very successful fashion designer living in Atlanta. She receives news that her father has passed on. Jolie returns home to exact some revenge on her stepmother and her kids, but winds up joining Theron, Lemar's nephew, in his quest to reopen the murder case. Jolie had never believed that Lemar was behind the murders. Almost from the start of their investigation, Theron's and Jolie's lives are threatened, and as the bodies and attempted murders start to pile up, Max, Jolie's stepbrother, steps in to protect Jolie.
So now Jolie has two battles to fight: The person who wants her dead and her overwhelming attraction to Max.
Secrets, secrets, secrets. The plot of this story is rich with secrets and mysteries that will keep you glued to the book until the very end. I absolutely loved it.
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