#anna downes

Anna Downes: The Safe Place. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fiction, Suspense, Thriller. Published 2020

Blurb: Emily Proudman just lost her acting agent, her job, and her apartment in one miserable day.

Emily is desperate.

Scott Denny, a successful and charismatic CEO, has a problem that neither his business acumen nor vast wealth can fix. Until he meets Emily.

Emily is perfect.

Scott offers Emily a summer job as a housekeeper on his remote, beautiful French estate. Enchanted by his lovely wife Nina, and his eccentric young daughter, Aurelia, Emily falls headlong into this oasis of wine-soaked days by the pool. But soon Emily realizes that Scott and Nina are hiding dangerous secrets, and if she doesn't play along, the consequences could be deadly.

My review: I found this story well-written, with a good, slowly building and suspenseful plot. Fine character writing as well, and this is a really good “get away from the real world for a few days” book. Recommended for suspense fans, glad I read it. #TheSafePlace #NetGalley

Alex is a single mom of two kids who leaves Sydney Australia for the small community of Pine Ridge. It’s a place that has all the small town feelings going on. It’s surrounded by forests, and the locals seem perfectly and amazingly welcoming. But, then stuff starts happening. And, it’s like, did Alex escape her past in Sydney, and then stumble into someone else’s in the process?

This was an intense book. It was also a slow starting book (when this is done well I always think of it as the author carefully putting everything into where it’s supposed to be before they let everything go for the second half or so of the book). But, that slow start only ramped up the intensity of the story of Alex, Pine Ridge, Kit, etc.

You may like this book If you Liked: Fear Thy Neighbor by Fern Michaels, The Other Family by Wendy Corsi Staub, or The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth

Author: Anna DownesPublisher: Minotaur BooksReleased: August 27, 2024Received: Own (Aardvark)Find it on Storygraph | More Thrillers | Aardvark Book Summary: Katy Sweeney is wandering through Australia’s Western coast with a poorly thought-out plan to track down her missing sister. Phoebe went missing this time last year while traveling alone. So maybe Katy following in her footsteps isn’t the…

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Emily is not having a good day. She gets fired from her temp job as well as her agent (she totally screws up an audition). But, even as she’s getting fired from her job, the CEO of the same company offers her a job. To be the housekeeper and nanny at his family’s vacation home in France. She takes it.

Scott (the CEO), Nina (his wife), and Aurelia (his daughter) are all there, and everything seems perfect. But then come the secrets. Oh the secrets.

The slow burn and suspense is delightful here. It ramps up and ramps up and kept me turning the pages. And the characters definitely kept me reading as well. Overall the book reaffirmed the whole, ‘don’t look too close at paradise’.

You may like this book If you Liked: The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager, The Snakes by Sadie Jones, or Out of Her Depth by Lizzy Barber

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