The River House
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Publisher Description
Would you reveal a secret that might solve a murder but would ruin your life?
Ginnie Holmes has found something she never intended to find an overwhelming passion for a man she should not be with. An abandoned boathouse hidden on the riverbank of the Thames is their secret meeting place.
Then, in a single terrifying event, the lovers' secret becomes a deadly catastrophe. A woman is found murdered at the river's edge, just near the boathouse. Ginnie finds herself in the path of extraordinary danger, not only facing the exposure and grief that she has feared, but endangering everyone she loves.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Leroy's second U.S. release (Postcards from Berlin), heroine Ginnie Holmes a respected psychologist and mother of two shakes up her comfy, middle-aged life by embarking on a passionate affair with a married man. The duo throw caution and their bare behinds to the wind every Thursday afternoon in trysts along deserted, woody banks of the Thames. As it gets colder outside, Ginnie and Will (aka Detective Inspector Hampden) seek privacy in an abandoned river house. One day, "entangled" inside with her "smoke and cinnamon" scented lover, Ginnie spies a suspicious-looking man by the river. Initially unnerved, she dismisses her reaction as projected guilt until a woman is found murdered near that very spot. Thus begins the real conflict in this atmospheric love story cum psychological thriller. Should Ginnie remain silent, potentially allowing a murderer to go free? Or should she speak up, and thereby expose her affair and ruin two marriages? As she frets over the decision, all the while juggling a career, an emotionally aloof husband, a difficult 16-year-old daughter and an ailing mother, Ginnie seems less a heroine and more a hapless fly caught in a moral spider web. Leroy manages to make Ginnie sympathetic even though she isn't always likable and her dilemma chillingly real.
