The Third Sister
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3.8 • 18 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Family drama, deadly secrets, and deception come to a head in the explosive conclusion of #1 internationally bestselling author Sara Blaedel's Family Secrets trilogy.
Ilka Jensen's life is in chaos following the tumultuous events of Her Father's Secret. The funeral home she inherited after her estranged father's death is bankrupt. Her new business partner, Artie, lies unconscious in the hospital after a savage attack by mysterious assailants, and her father's second wife is in prison.
Then, just as Ilka learns a shocking revelation about her father, two menacing strangers turn up at the funeral home—dangerous men who mean to draw her further into a world of secrets, betrayal, and murder.
In order to protect herself and those around her, Ilka sets off on a twisting journey to confront the truth about the man who abandoned her as a child. But the long-buried secrets of her father's past are more tangled and perilous than Ilka could ever imagine . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Blaedel plunges right into the middle of the ongoing story line in the melodramatic concluding volume of her Family Secrets trilogy (after 2019's Her Father's Secret). In the previous book, Ilka Jensen moved from Denmark to inherit her late estranged father's funeral home in Racine, Wis., where he moved after abandoning his family 30 years earlier when Ilka was a child. Now Ilka learns a shocking truth about her father that involves a nun he knew, Sister Eileen. Sister Eileen turns out not to be a real nun but a wanted fugitive, Lydia Rogers, who has "been in hiding for the past twelve years to escape a death sentence in Texas." And men from Lydia's past seeking to kill her have just attacked Artie Sorvino, Ilka's business partner, leaving him close to death. The risk to Lydia, who's been accused of smuggling drugs across the Mexican border into the U.S. in dead babies, continues, imperiling Ilka as well. The stories of Ilka and Lydia's attempts to stay alive are frustratingly convoluted, and readers will struggle to care about their fates. This series falls short of the standard set by Blaedel's Louise Rick mysteries.
Customer Reviews
Didn’t work
I have enjoyed so many of her other books but this one didn’t work for me. The only book I read this year that I regretted starting.
The layers of the plot spring up out of almost no where. The twists and turns don’t have a solid grounding in the characters or even reality.
I read to the end because I wanted to know what happened but I was still tripping up over the clumsy and implausible chain of events.