Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Ten heroines who played the secret motive game

Jane Corry is a writer and journalist and has spent time as the writer in residence of a high-security prison for men–an experience that helped inspire My Husband’s Wife, her suspense debut.

Corry's new novel is The Dead Ex.

At CrimeReads she tagged ten classics where the heroines are mistresses of the “secret motive game,” including:
Delia: Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years

Some heroines adopt secret motives for very understandable reasons. Tyler is one of my favorite authors. When Delia disappears, her family fears the worst. But Delia is only trying to find out who she is and how to go forward. “Why wasn’t there an etiquette book for runaway wives?” There’s a publishing opportunity out there…
Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue