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    Suspicious Origin: A Novel

    Written by Patricia MacDonald

    Narrated by Anna Fields

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    About this audiobook

    In a small Vermont town, Britt Andersen investigates the tragic house fire that has killed her beautiful sister Greta. Estranged from her sister since their father died, Britt meets Alec, her attractive ex-brother-in-law and her eleven-year-old niece Zoe-who had narrowly escaped the fire with her life. Britt soon suspects Alec of deliberately setting the fire, and gathers enough evidence to have him arrested. However, in one of the many suspenseful plot twists, Britt learns a family secret that convinces her of Alec's innocence, and her subsequent search for the real killer uncovers the sister she never knew. With suspects around every corner, and a startling conclusion, Suspicious Origin will keep readers flipping pages until the very end.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 22, 2003
    ISBN9781415912423
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    Suspicious Origin: A Novel
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    Patricia MacDonald

    Patricia Macdonald's darkly hypnotic tales have captivated readers across America, as well as in France, where she is a #1 bestselling author. Her previous novels include Suspicious Origin, Stranger in the House, Not Guilty, Safe Haven, and the Edgar Award-nominated The Unforgiven. She lives with her husband and daughter in New Jersey.

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    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. It was a fast moving thriller that had me thinking one way, then another.
      Britt and her sister Greta are estanged. Britt gets a phone call from her brother-in-law that Greta was killed in a house fire and she heads off to Vermont to see if she can help with her niece. Once she gets there, she finds out that the fire was intentionally set and that both Greta and Zoe had been drugged. Britt, being a television producer, begins to dig to find out what really happened. I swung from the television reporter, to the neice, to the husband, to the neighbour, the unwed mother and back and forth with my suspicions. The ending was another twist to the story. This book will keep you riveted.
    • 3/5
      I picked up this book for some summer reading, and it fit the bill. It is compelling but not gory, has several simultaneous plot lines going, includes a cute and spunky little girl, provides plenty of plot twists and a surprising ending. Britt Anderson’s sister is killed in a suspicious house fire and, even though she hasn’t talked to her sister in twelve years, she goes to Vermont for the funeral and to meet her eleven year old niece. She ends up injecting herself into the middle of the investigation and having more of an impact on its outcome than she imagines or wants. Over the course of the book, another house burns, a neighbor adopts a baby, a hitchhiker gets hit by a car, and Britt learns about the mother she never knew (see what I mean about lots of plots?)I liked this book and read it in a single day. (I didn’t have much else to do that day.) However I did not like Britt – she was vengeful, nosy (in a really-off-putting way), blind to the discomfort of others, unbelievably gullible, and way too arrogant. To me she had absolutely no redeeming qualities that would have made me like her. I also didn’t like her brother in law, Alec, who was also way too arrogant for my tastes. Zoe, the spunky little girl, kept me reading till the end.