The Teacher by Freida McFadden #TheVirtualCrimeBookClub

It’s a lesson she’ll never forget.

Lesson #1: Trust no one.

Book blurb

Eve has a good life. She gets up each day, gets a kiss from her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except…

Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than meets the eye.

Addie can’t be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least, that’s what everyone says.

But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy her. And Addie will do anything to keep it quiet.

My thoughts

The book covers some dark stuff manipulation, controlling relationships and child(teenage) abuse/peodophilia but it is not a story that is preachy nor is it overly graphic regarding this or the murders that take place.

It is a well written and compelling story that took me some time to get into. I found it slow going until around two thirds of the way through this book when it really took off and despite some of the things that happened I began to quite enjoy it. The final third is when the setting up of the story came together and provided an ending that was really quite satisfying in a dark/noir, black comedy kind of way. There are elements of the story that may, will need the reader to go along with that might be a little too much for some. That said the book is very readable.

Book: e-Library

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Information

Published: Hollywood Upstairs Press / Source Books Inc| 6 Feb 2024 | 402 pp |

Article: Poisoned Pen Press becomes imprint of Source Books (Publishers Weekly )

Poisoned Pen Press Will Become Sourcebooks’ Mystery Imprint

Poisoned Pen Press titles

Sourcebooks has announced that it has acquired most of the assets of Poisoned Pen Press and that the award-winning crime and mystery publisher will become Sourcebooks’ mystery imprint.
In addition to buying the assets, Barbara Peters, PP editor-in-chief, and Robert Rosenwald, company founder, along with the rest of the staff of Poisoned Pen Press, will become Sourcebooks employees. The Poisoned Pen Press offices will remain in Scottsdale, Az. The Poisoned Pen Bookstore, an independent mystery and crime bookstore founded by Peters more than 20 years ago, will remain under her ownership and is unaffected by the partnership with Sourcebooks.
Publishers Weekly

Author

#1 New York Times, Amazon Charts, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Sunday Times, and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author Freida McFadden is a physician who has penned multiple bestselling psychological thrillers and medical humor novels. Freida’s work has been selected as one of Amazon Editors’ best books of the year, she is the winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for best paperback, and she is a Goodreads Choice Award winner. Her novels have been translated into 40 languages.

Freida lives with her family and cat in a centuries-old three-story home overlooking the ocean, with staircases that creak and moan with each step, and nobody could hear you if you scream. Unless you scream really loudly, maybe.

To hear Freida talk about herself more in the third person, check out her website freidamcfadden

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