Woman On The Edge is the gripping,enthralling story of two emotionally flawed women who it seems fate has decided to throw together in a heart breaking,shocking encounter that results in one of them being dead and the other having to fight to prove that she is neither a child abductor or a murderer.
Nicole Markham has a charmed life,she is beautiful,is CEO of her own clothing company,has a handsome loving husband and is the mother of a gorgeous seven week old daughter. So what would make her want to commit suicide?
Morgan Kincaid is a social worker who works in a refuge for abused women. Her life was torn apart when her husband embezzled lots of many from many people including Morgan's parents and then committed suicide leaving Morgan to face the backlash. Many people including the police believe that Morgan was his accomplice and knew more about her husband's nefarious activities than she has admitted.
The chapters alternate between Morgan and Nicole. Morgan's chapters are set in the present day as we follow her desperate quest to prove her innocence,find out why a complete stranger would ask her to take care if her baby whilst having to deal with the suspicions of the annoyingly blinkered detective who is in charge of the case and having no idea who she can trust. Nicole`s chapters were set in the past as we followed her journey from confident pregnant business women to a anxious,paranoid shell of her former self. Is she suffering from postnatal depression or is someone playing games with her because of her fragile mental state of mind?. As a parent myself, I felt a lot of empathy for poor Nicole and could fully understand her desire to protect her beloved daughter,a desire that was compounded by a sad incident that happened in her past. I thought Morgan was a likeable character but I was also unsure at times about the reliability of her narratives. There was a number of other possibly untrustworthy characters who may or may not have been involved in Nicole`s possible mental decline.
I honestly cannot believe that this extremely well written,tightly plotted thriller is a debut novel. I was hooked in from the first page,totally captivated by the twists and turns as the story unfolded before my eyes. The short snappy chapters,many of which ended on a cliff hanger gave the reader a very bad case of Just one more chapter syndrome. I loved this book and look forward to reading many more books written by this author in the future. Worth far more than five stars and very very highly recommended.
AUTHOR BIO
Samantha M. Bailey is a Toronto-based novelist, freelance editor, and journalist who has written extensively for Now Magazine, Oxford University Press, and many other publications. She is the co-founder of “BookBuzz,” a promotional and interactive author event held in New York City and Toronto. She holds a Master of Education in Applied Linguistics and credits that degree with her writing career because she wrote her first (unpublished) novel after taking a course on imagination. Now her imagination leads her to create dark and twisty stories, and her debut psychological thriller, WOMAN ON THE EDGE, will be published by Simon and Schuster Canada and Headline UK, and translated into seven languages. She loves reading as much as writing, so when not tapping away on her computer, she’s probably curled up with a really good book
PUBLICATION DATE: 1st October 2019
PRINT LENGTH: 288 pages
PUBLISHER: Headline
GENRE: Suspense Thriller
PURCHASE LINK....
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07Q249G4C?pf_rd_p=330fbd82-d4fe-42e5-9c16-d4b886747c64&pf_rd_r=CW20CESJN0QHNC6ASVGA
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