![]() Nonetheless, this suspenseful domestic thriller will keep readers turning the pages. Hawkins shows real wit in outsider Jane’s sharp-eyed take on the entitled ladies of Thornfield Estates, but the mercenarily motivated characters will put off some readers. As the police reopen their probe, an increasingly concerned Jane starts investigating Bea’s fate and what part, if any, Eddie played. Then Blanche’s body is found, and it’s clear from the massive skull fracture that her death was no accident. Each of the narrators are able to lend that specific tone people have when they seem to be in denial, the desperation of looming shadows. Listening to the book on audio only made the characters come alive even more vividly. Sparks fly, but plain Jane has a tough time living up to the legend of the glamorous Bea, who created the Southern Manors lifestyle brand. The Wife Upstairs manages to be both character driven, as their stories unravel, and action packed. Shortly after starting to walk dogs in tony Thornfield Estates, a gated community in Birmingham, Ala., the penniless young woman calling herself Jane meets dashing recent widower Eddie Rochester-whose wealthy wife, Bea Mason, went missing and was presumed drowned in a boating mishap, along with her BFF Blanche Ingraham, six months earlier. I was glued to the pages and I found myself. ![]() YA author Hawkins ( Her Royal Highness) makes her adult debut with this spirited reboot of Jane Eyre. This is just the kind of twisty/turny bordering on very disturbing domestic-thriller book that I like to read. ![]()
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