


Hopefully, this is a temporary slump for the talented Kubica. Red herrings litter the multiple narratives, adding too much weight to an already overloaded plot, and a soapy twist disappoints. A mother of two from Ipoh has become the first Malaysian to win a crown at the Mrs Tourism Queen International beauty pageant The 41-year-old, Sangeet Kaur Manjit Singh, bested 18 other finalists from various countries to win the Mrs Global Tourism 2023 title at the finals that was held in Nong Khai, Thailand on 15 April. However, Imogen’s increasingly threatening behavior causes tension among the family, and the murder of a neighbor’s new wife throws their lives into a tailspin when Sadie becomes a suspect. She would like to move past Will’s affair, as well as an alarming school incident with Otto and a mistake that forced her to resign from her former position in Chicago. Despite the tragedy, Sadie sees a chance for a new start with Will and their two boys, 14-year-old Otto and seven-year-old Tate. The wife and mother of young children, Sadie, is not feeling at ease with the new house that the family has inherited nor their move from Chicago. They have also agreed to accept guardianship for Alice’s understandably troubled 16-year-old daughter, Imogen. by Mary Kubica The book begins domestically enough, on a suburban Maine island where a young family has just moved from Chicago. In this convoluted psychological thriller from bestseller Kubica ( When the Lights Go Out), physician Sadie Foust and her professor husband, Will, have inherited his sister Alice’s house, on an island off the coast of Maine, after Alice’s apparent suicide.
