1) A Life Without Water by Marci Bolden. This was a book group choice and has had mixed responses from the members. Carol and John had divorced twenty years ago, after Carol fled town. She moved away and began a new life.
One day John unexpectedly showed up at Carol's office wanting to see their daughter for her thirtieth birthday. Turned out that John was dying and had both amends and promises that he wanted to work on, and Carol was a central part of what he needed to do. Against her better judgment, she and John took off on a journey long overdue.
I found some of the story rather unbelievable and thought that the writing was more of a young adult style. It's not a book I will be keeping.
2) The Child by Fiona Barton. This book was better than the one above, but not good enough for me to keep. It is a mystery that kept me interested.
The author brought back her character journalist Kate Waters in the story. Kate came across a short blurb in a newspaper that was about a construction site where bones of a baby were discovered. The short piece caught Kate's attention and she began to investigate the story. It eventually led her to two other women one of whom had had a baby kidnapped from the hospital right after birth. Kate had to search out people that had lived at a certain housing area in the 1980's to begin to piece the whole story together. It's quite a good mystery!
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