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Book Notices | The Trap by Melanie Raabe

Melanie Raabe, The Trap

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Linda Conrads is a best-selling author who hasn't left her house in 11 years. She went into seclusion not long after finding her sister Anna murdered—and seeing the face of the murderer before he ran off. The murder is still unsolved, and Linda is still haunted by that face. So what if she sees it one day on TV? Melanie Raabe's debut novel, translated from the German, is a twisty thriller that really did keep me guessing until the end. With very few pages to go, I still half expected a different outcome. There's also a story within the story, as Linda seeks to lure her sister's killer out of hiding by writing a novel based on the crime. Passages from that text are interspersed throughout The Trap, and they provide information—lightly fictionalized, and filtered through our protagonist's perhaps imperfect memory—about what happened in the aftermath of Anna's death. An enjoyable read.

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Sounds like a good one!

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