A ‘digital scrapbooker’ is hired to compile a collection for a woman losing her memory to Alzheimer’s disease. The woman dies, but the scrapbooker proceeds – and stumbles upon a disturbing pattern.
I thought the premise of this book was great. The execution was good, but there was a bit too much going on in it. It could easily have been at least 50 pages shorter by weeding out some of the MC’s side arcs, and I think it would have made the book stronger.
Plenty or red herrings were introduced, but again, there was so much going on that they weren’t as effective as they might have been. The MC was kind of a princess, not really relatable or likeable. The author did try to evolve her character and show growth over the course of the story, but it was almost lost among all the other strands of the web.
Worth a read, but not a must read now.
From Goodreads: A dead woman’s cherished trinkets become pieces to a terrifying puzzle.
Mickie Lambert creates “digital scrapbooks” for clients, ensuring that precious souvenirs aren’t forgotten or lost. When her latest client, Nadia Denham, a curio shop owner, dies from an apparent suicide, Mickie honors the old woman’s last wish and begins curating her peculiar objets d’art. A music box, a hair clip, a key chain―twelve mementos in all that must have meant so much to Nadia, who collected them on her flea market scavenges across the country.
But these tokens mean a lot to someone else, too. Mickie has been receiving threatening messages to leave Nadia’s past alone.
It’s becoming a mystery Mickie is driven to solve. Who once owned these odd treasures? How did Nadia really come to possess them? Discovering the truth means crossing paths with a long-dormant serial killer and navigating the secrets of a sinister past. One that might, Mickie fears, be inescapably entwined with her own.
Shannon Hollinger 
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