Welcome to Twofer Tuesday! In a recent post I talked about my winning streak as I followed other authors from blogs to Goodreads to Facebook and entered giveaways celebrating wonderful new books.
You may recall that one of the books I won is The Wrong Girl by Hank Phillippi Ryan. I must tell you that I found the book to be both gripping and thought provoking. It belongs on everyone’s TBR list. Here is a bit to whet your appetite.
At the behest of a former colleague, Boston newspaper reporter Jane Ryland is investigating a long ago adoption, while Detective Jake Brogan is investigating a murder. Very quickly they find that their investigations lead them both into the intricacies of an overburdened foster care system and a scandal ridden adoption agency. To help you feel the enormity of the problems at hand, here are a few sentences from The Wrong Girl:
“That empty cradle. Bugged the hell out of him. Dr. Sibbach insisted she’d been given no paperwork about a third child. Insisted there were only two kids. But that didn’t add up.”
Chilling, right?
My current work in progress is a short story that deals with another aspect of the foster care/adoption system. It takes place in the early 1960s. Here’s a glimpse:
“When we got to my grandmother’s farm, they dumped me and my sparse luggage in Granny’s sitting room. My mother sat on a chair in the kitchen and wailed her grievances about how I’d gone wrong as if we were all discovering for the first time why the trip had been made.”
And you? Have you gotten anything written lately? If so, please share a snippet in the comments as we are a very curious group.
Terrie
The post The Wrong Girl Tuesday Twosome appeared first on Women of Mystery.