Laura McHugh
Laura McHugh is the author of The Weight of Blood, winner of an International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel and a Silver Falchion Award for Best First Novel: Literary Suspense. The Weight of Blood was named a Best Book of the Year by BookPage, the Kansas City Star, and the Sunday...
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Laura McHugh is the author of The Weight of Blood, winner of an International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel and a Silver Falchion Award for Best First Novel: Literary Suspense. The Weight of Blood was named a Best Book of the Year by BookPage, the Kansas City Star, and the Sunday Times (UK), and was also nominated for an Alex Award, Barry Award, and GoodReads Choice Award (Best Mystery and Best Debut). Her second novel, Arrowood, will be published in 2016.A lifelong Midwesterner, McHugh lives in Missouri with her husband and children.
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The loved The Weight of Blood so I was excited to read this novel. I found myself putting this novel down many times as in the beginning, I just couldn’t get my mind wrapped around the drama unfolding. It just wasn’t as captivating as I hoped it would be for I just wanted to drown in the misery of B...
This was okay, as far as mysteries go, although one has to really work hard to suspend disbelief at some of the plot devices. I found the protagonist a little too self-righteously emo for liking. But overall, it kept my interest long enough to finish the book. I did like what the book had to say abo...
They vanished when Arden was 8. They were playing outside, when she quickly went around the corner of the house to retrieve something and when she came back, her twin 21-month old sisters were gone. She remembers seeing a gold car, it was moving down the street with her sisters inside, that was the ...
#ARROWOOD For the most part, I thought this was a pretty good story. However, there were numerous times when the story would take off and my heart was pumping, it was all good. Then, bam, it would slow down. There was several times that it did this. And when it did, it not only took away from the s...
This was my second try at reading this one. It just didn't grab me the first time but the audio book that I was able to get from the library helped me get into it and stay involved. It was a lot slower than I had thought it would be. And the mystery bits weren't as mysterious or intense as I had h...
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