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Tattoo (Take It Off #7)

Cambria Hebert

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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A tattoo gets them in trouble… He will get them out. After years of cultivating an undercover...

Contemporary Romance Romantic Suspense

ClareR (6037 KP) rated A Tidy Ending in Books

Oct 2, 2022

A Tidy Ending

Joanna Cannon | 2022 | Contemporary, Crime, Fiction & Poetry, Mystery, Thriller

10.0

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I loved A Tidy Ending! Joanna Cannon has created a really interesting character in Linda. On the surface, she’s a woman who hasn’t done much with her life - other than marry Terry and work in a charity shop. She begrudgingly visits her manipulative mother more often than she’d like to, and becomes obsessed with the woman who owned her house before she and Terry moved in.

When she tracks Rebecca (the ex-homeowner) down, Linda believes she’s found a new best friend. Rebecca wouldn’t agree with her. And so begins what looks like a story of manipulation and lies. But who is manipulating who? I mean, they’re ALL lying - that’s a given!

Linda is fascinating, her mum is unpleasant, and Terry comes across as underwhelmed by everything except his fishing. No wonder he annoys Linda so much!

There’s a mystery running alongside all of Linda’s relationships - women go missing, and Linda begins to think Terry might be involved.

That’s where I’ll leave the plot, because I don’t want to give anything away. I will say that I just loved the way that Joanna Cannon wrote about the characters in this: confidence tricksters, nosy neighbours, bossy mums, seemingly depressed husbands. A thoroughly good read!