Book Review and Giveaway: Game of Secrets by DawnTripp

Ok, so apparently I should never update posts from the mobile app as it ERASED them. Thanks Blogger......

Synopsis: Jane Weld was eleven years old when her father, Luce, disappeared in 1957. His skiff was found drifting near a marsh, empty except for his hunting coat and a box of shotgun shells. No one in their small New England town knew for sure what happened until, three years later, Luce’s skull rolled out of a gravel pit, a bullet hole in the temple. Rumors sprang up that he had been murdered by the jealous husband of his mistress, Ada Varick. 

Now, half a century later, Jane is still searching for the truth of her father’s death, a mystery made more urgent by the unexpected romance that her willful daughter, Marne, has struck up with one of Ada’s sons. As the love affair intensifies, Jane and Ada meet for their weekly Friday game of Scrabble, a pastime that soon transforms into a cat-and-mouse game of words long left unspoken, and dark secrets best left untold.

Review: This is a great book. I loved the idea of setting the story around a Scrabble game, as I grew up playing it with my Grandmothers and Mom, and have fond memories of the maroon box, that is still taped up on the sides, like the one in the story. Dawn has done an excellent job of bringing a twisted web of stories and leading the reader down an intriguing path, where what you think you know isn't the whole truth. And the whole truth changes everyone else's paths.


I wish I had saved my original review, as I had a great interview with Dawn, about how she set up the book, that really tells more about it than I could. But I've lost the link, so for now, and to get this review back up, let me say this is a perfect Summer read, and one that when you read the ending will stay with you for a long time!

About the Author: DAWN TRIPP graduated from Harvard and lives in Massachusetts with her husband and sons. Her essays have appeared on NPR and online at Psychology Today. She is the author of two previous novels: Moon Tide and The Season of Open Water, which won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction.







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