Laura has finally found a perfect life. She is using her education and degree in art to manage an art galley and has a new show starting soon that will be the cap on her career. She is living with Jack, her fiancee and they will be getting married as soon as his divorce from Bronwyn comes through. Then there's Charlotte or Charlie as she likes to be called. Charlie is six and Laura loves her unreservedly. Charlie had a rough patch after Bronwyn left the family and moved to Italy with her new man but Laura was there for her and the two have developed a stable, loving relationship.
Then suddenly, everything falls apart. Laura forgets to lock the galley when Charlie's school calls with an emergency and a valuable art piece is stolen. Bronwyn is coming home, ostensibly to sign the divorce papers finally, but she expects to stay with Laura and Jack which is an awkward position at best. Bronwyn disapproves of everything about Laura and Charlie and does her best to upend that relationship and maybe the one between Jack and Laura. Then there is Sunshine. She approaches Laura about a job and is pushy enough that she ends up with it after the galley owner decides she is the one, forcing Laura to hire her over better qualified applicants. Is she after Jack? Or maybe Laura's job?
Natalie Barelli is an Australian author who is known for her psychological thrillers. She has written nine and this one is a hit. I listened to it and the narrator did an excellent job. The book is written from Lauran's point of view so the reader is able to follow her thinking as her life starts to fall apart and as she negotiates increasingly difficult relationships with Sunshine, Jack and mostly Bronwyn. There are plenty of twists and turns and the reader is tempted to find a backbone for Laura and insert it as she seems to let everyone push her around. This book is recommended for mystery readers.
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