HUSH, by Kate White

(originally posted on February 21, 2010)

White's novels, for me, are the perfect vacation read, even when I am up to my ears in deadlines. HUSH, however, is a departure from the first person Bailey Weggins mysteries (which owe their debts to fair-play mysteries), instead a third-person femjep spiraling out from one woman's impulsive sexual decision. What follows is a broken-glass sequence of murder, workplace tension, and the growing sense that someone is going to kill Lake Warren only after she's been subject to all kinds of psychological torture. I know I felt genuine palpitations while reading HUSH; something tells me many others will, too. Indiebound | Powell’s | B & N | Borders | Amazon