What She Left
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3.3 • 6 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
She’s on her last chance. When the bodies start piling up, she’ll need to save more than her job.
Martina Monroe is a single bad day away from losing it all. Stuck catching insurance fraudsters and cheating spouses due to a DUI, the despondent PI yearns to return to more fulfilling gigs. So when a prospective client asks for her by name to identify an unknown infant in a family photo, she leaps at the opportunity and travels to the one place she swore never to go: back home.
As the pressure mounts and the temptation of booze calls like a siren, Martina digs into the mystery and discovers many of the threads have razor-sharp ends. And forced to partner with a resentful detective investigating a linked suspicious death, the haunted private eye unravels clues that delve deep into her past… and put her in a dark and dangerous corner.
Can this gritty detective unlock the truth before she’s drowned in a sea of secrets?
What She Left is the page-turning first book in the Martina Monroe Private Investigator Series. If you like high-stakes games, jaw-dropping twists, and embattled seekers struggling to do right, then you’ll love H.K. Christie’s thrilling search for answers.
Customer Reviews
Poorly Written and Hard to listen to
The bones of the story are decent, but the 'family secret' is quite predictable from the start, leaving me uncertain if that was intentional.
There are many better mystery books available, and I would recommend passing on this one.
Unfortunately, the book has some glaring issues. First, the writing is clunky, especially in the dialogue. The author features a 7-year-old girl who speaks in overly formal, stilted, and grammatically correct sentences, which is unrealistic for a child. This broke the immersion for me every time she appeared. I'm surprised an editor didn't address this more thoroughly.
Second, the audiobook narrator was poorly chosen. I've never heard a more monotone voice narrate a book. At first, I thought the character was meant to sound depressed, but the narration didn't match the text.
This isn't a bad attempt if this is the author's first novel, but it leaves much to be desired.