This week’s bitchin’ giveaway is for UNBECOMING by Rebecca Scherm! UNBECOMING is her debut thriller novel of suspense, mystery.
UNBECOMING is an intricately plotted and psychologically nuanced heist novel that turns on suspense and slippery identity. With echoes of Alfred Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith, Rebecca Scherm’s mesmerizing debut is sure to entrance fans of Gillian Flynn, Marisha Pessl, and Donna Tartt.
Thanks to the Publisher, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of UNBECOMING for your enjoyment! Giveaway is for one copy.
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This book made me want to read more thrillers about international art fraud! It also inspired me to finally pick up The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
This debut novel by Rebecca Scherm is recommended for fans of The Goldfinch which I haven’t read but thought sounded good.
Since Unbecoming is shorter, I thought this one sounded like a good place to start.
We meet Julie (AKA Grace) who is living a double life in France. While she was on her summer study abroad program in Prague, she receives word that her long time boyfriend/husband, Riley, and his best friend (and her lover), Alls, who have been arrested for a high profile heist at an estate back in Tennessee.
Well three years later Grace is still in Europe, when she learns they will both be paroled. She is hiding from both of them for a number of reasons. One of which is the stolen art canvas she left the states with three years previously.
This is a modern Gothic thriller to put on your radar!
Tim Ellison has been in a rut lately. He has spent his time sleeping on his ex-girlfriend’s couch, working in a restaurant, and surfing.
Life isn’t quite what he expected. But he does know one thing….it’s time to move out of his ex’s house.
Tim finds a cheap room rental at Fairview, when he shows up he is expecting to see a heap but instead he finds a mansion.
Built in 1890, Fairview is a beautiful mansion boasting some of the best views in Sydney. It’s owned by Anna London who inherited the house after her parents’ deaths.
In exchange for the cheap rent, Tim has one job: to look after Anna. Though she is in her twenties, she acts more like an elderly woman. She also never leaves her house as she suffers from a severe anxiety disorder. But it seems like a fair gig to Tim so he takes the post.
A lot has changed in the seven years since we first met the very unlucky Karen Brown.
She has now completely embraced her true identity of Carina Mitela and she is now living as a Roma Novan.
Carina has married Conradus (AKA Conrad) and since the last novel, they have advanced in their careers within the PGSF (Praetorian Guard Special Forces).
Conrad has just been made Legate which is basically the Chief within the PGSF and Carina is also a Captain in the Strategy Section.
Their marriage is solid but their careers are complicated. They also have their children to protect and provide for….but that is a fact easier said than done. Carina must prevent a conspiracy that not only threatens her country, but also her marriage and children!
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