Reviewed by Nas Dean
THE SCANDAL by author Nicola Marsh is a July release by Bookouture.
There’s a group of friends who stick by each other. These ladies have parties and enjoy gossips. One night during a party at Marissa’s house a pregnant girl faints on the doorstep, and everyone’s life changes. Now, who is the baby daddy? And then we get to know this trio of friends and realize they all are keeping secrets.
As the story unfolds we get to know more but we had to keep guessing as to which person is responsible for what action.
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THE SCANDAL, we get terrific characters, a fast-paced story with a few twists along the way, no, a lot of twists along the way! And a small town where almost everyone is a suspect. Author Nicola Marsh, with a deft hand, crafts the unravelling of a marriage with brutal honesty. The genius is how she stitches the perfect ending.
Highly recommended for readers of thrillers.
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Review by Helen
If you want a book that has lots of twists and has you guessing till the very end then this is a book you should pick up, oh my goodness the emotions that fly from the characters as secrets are unraveled and truths learned. Come along and mix with the rich people of The Hamptons and meet Marisa (Ris), Claire and Elly friends who are there for each other.
Ris is a phycologist and has her friends Claire and Elly over once a month for garden club or wine and cheese and lots of talk between friends at Ris’s beautiful home in The Hamptons, Ris is married to a CEO and has everything that the privileged normally have or has she? Ris keeps secrets buried deep in her thoughts and since her twin daughters have moved a way things are starting to change and unravel.
Claire is a police officer and has not been herself for many weeks now and that is not like her at all and Ris is determined to help however she can, helping people is what makes Ris happy. Claire is keeping secrets and is about to tell her friends.
Elly is beautiful and glamourous and needs to be in control she works managing a medical practice, her secrets would blow the lid of their friendship if it ever came out but maybe the time is coming.
When a young single pregnant girl, Jodi arrives in town looking for the baby’s father this sets the cat among the pigeons and the lies and secrets begin to unravel in a dangerous way.
This book had me turning the pages to get to the end, my heart was racing at times the emotions so real, trying hard to guess who had done what to who and getting to know Ris, Claire and Elly and the reason they do what they do and why they have secrets that do eventually come out and play a big part in some things that happen. So many great characters and some not so nice characters in the story and Nicola Marsh has bought them to life so well.
This story is about friendships affairs and secrets that can destroy and one I do highly recommend.
5 stars
Published July 22nd 2019 by Bookouture
