A LIKEABLE WOMAN BY MAY COBB

When a woman returns home for a friends vow renewal, she ends up searching for answers about her late mother's death. Little does she know how close the murder is to home. 

Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: July 11, 2023
Genre: Thriller
Series: None. 
Pages: 381 pages
Format: eBook Source: Berkeley Publishing

Kira’s back in her affluent hometown for the first time in years and determined to unravel the secrets of her mother’s death--hidden in the unpublished memoir she left behind-- even if it kills her. . . .

After her troublemaker mother’s mysterious death, Kira fled her wealthy Texas town and never looked back. Now, decades later, Kira is invited to an old frenemy’s vow renewal celebration Though she is reluctant to go, there are things pulling her home. . . like chilled wine and days spent by the pool . . . like sexy Jack, her childhood crush. But more important are the urgent texts from her grandmother, who says she has something for Kira. Something related to her mother’s death, something that make it look an awful lot like murder.

When her grandmother gives Kira a memoir that her mother had been working on before she died, Kira is drawn into the past and all

the sizzling secrets that come along with it. With few allies left in her gossipy country-club town, Kira turns to Jack for help. As she gets closer to discovering what—and who—might have brought about her mother’s end, it becomes clear that someone wants the past to stay buried.

And they might come after Kira next.

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A Likeable Woman is the first book I’ve read from May Cobb, and I’m impressed. While I’ve read plenty of thrillers that depict characters returning home after a long absence to solve a mystery, this one stood out to me because of the twist! I wasn’t expecting it at all. Told in dual POVs and timelines; both the MC Kira and her mother Sadie prior to her death, readers will be thrust into a mystery where things aren’t quite what they seem. I found this to be clever, intriguing, and shocking. Of course, there’s quite a bit of gossip, mean girl behaviors, family issues, and a variety of other things that make this juicy, but the main mystery was fantastic! My only real complaint I think was that it felt long while I was reading. Could I have binged it in a day? Probably not, which is something I love to do. But I do think the length DID work for the book because there were so many puzzle pieces that we needed to sift through to get to the ending. All in all? I recommend this one completely.

𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗙𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗢𝗙
❥ Thrillers
❥ Small town Mysteries
❥ Characters returning home to solve a past mystery

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