Title: Not So Perfect Strangers
Author: L. S. Stratton
Genre: Thriller
Publication Date: 3/28/2023
Rating: 💣💣💣💣💣
About the Book:
One fateful encounter upends the lives of two women in this tense domestic thriller, a modern spin on Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers On A Train that flips the script on race and gender politics.
“I’m a big believer that women should help each other, Tasha,” she says. “Don’t you think?”
Tasha Jenkins has finally found the courage to leave her abusive husband. Taking her teenage son with her, Tasha checks into a hotel the night before their flight out of D.C. and out of Kordell Jenkins’s life forever. But escaping isn’t so easy, and Tasha soon finds herself driving back to her own personal hell. As she is leaving, a white woman pounds on her car window, begging to be let in. Behind the woman, an angry man is in pursuit. Tasha makes a split-second decision that will alter the course of her life: she lets her in and takes off.
Tasha and Madison Gingell may have very different everyday realities, but what they have in common is marriages they need out of. The two women want to help each other, but they have very different ideas of what that means . . .
They are on a collision course that will end in the case files of the D.C. MPD homicide unit. Unraveling the truth of what really happened may be impossible‒and futile. Because what has the truth ever done for women like Tasha and Madison?
My Review:
Trigger/content Warnings: Domestic Abuse/Violence, Religious Abuse/Trauma, SA, Murder, Emotional Abuse
Wow. That was all I could say when I finished this book. I could not put it down once I started. And I found myself saying Damn, did that really happen several times throughout the story. This book joined the ranks of some of the great thriller/suspense stories I've read just this year. The pacing was just right, and I could not guess the ending. I was extremely shocked by the time I got to the end of the book. I was just not expecting that. And some of the racial aspects the author pointed out was how it usually is, so that was a big plus in my book. This was such a masterful tale with a cast of characters that will not be forgotten any time soon. This author has and will always be in one of my autobuy piles. Such an extraordinary read.
About the Author:
L.S. Stratton is a NAACP Image Award-nominated author and former crime newspaper reporter who has written more than a dozen books under different pen names in just about every genre from thrillers to romance to historical fiction. She currently lives in Maryland with her husband, their daughter, and their tuxedo cat.
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