

I am ashamed to say that it took me twice as long as normal to finish this book. This domestic suspense thriller begins with a slow start. Where is Frankie’s daughter? Will she ever find her? She vows to escape, but not before the care home manager, Joy, is murdered. When multiple residents of the care home turn up dead, Edith believes that the patients are being murdered. Clio lives in a beautiful pink house and runs her psychology practice from home.

Edith believes that her daughter Clio wanted to get rid of her, so she left her there without cause. Patience is eighteen years old and works at care home taking care of Edith. Who are they and how are their stories connected?įrankie works at a prison and her daughter recently ran away from home. The book is narrated by Frankie, Patience, Edith, and Clio who each alternate chapters. Alice Feeney is one of my favorite authors, so as soon as I received this ARC, it went to the top of the queue. Wow! What a timely read with Mother’s Day soon approaching. “The world is full of people who are good at being bad, and people who are bad at being good.” The Queen of Twists, bestselling author of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney, returns with another gripping mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises in Good Bad Girl.

If they do, they might just find out what happened to the baby who disappeared, the mother who lost her, and the connections that bind them. With every reason to distrust each other, the women must solve a mystery with three suspects, two murders, and one victim. And someone new is about to knock on Clio’s door. But Patience is lying to Edith about almost everything.Įdith’s own daughter, Clio, won’t speak to her. Patience works there, cleaning up mess and bonding with Edith, a kindred spirit.

The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth.Įdith may have been tricked into a nursing home, but at eighty-years-young, she’s planning her escape. Twenty years after a baby is stolen from her push-chair, a woman is murdered in a care home. Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things.
