not meant to be a story.' She studied teaching instead and used her holidays to work on her writing career and complete a Masters' degree in Children's Literature. After the birth of her first child she stayed home full time to write and raise children, renovate houses and build a business with her husband.
The idea for her first published novel, The Boy Under the Table, was so scary that it took a year for her to find the courage to write the emotional story. Her second novel, Three Hours Late, was voted one of Fifty Books you can't put down in 2013 and her third novel, The Secrets in Silence, was The Australian Woman's Weekly Book of the month for June 2014.
Trope lives in Sydney with her husband and three children.
At CrimeReads she tagged six domestic suspense titles where nothing is really ever what it seems:
Sharp Objects, Gillian FlynnRead about another entry on the list.
A sense of unease fills this novel from page one. Camille returns to her hometown to cover the unsolved murder of a preteen girl. It’s not an assignment she wants, preferring to avoid her family and her memories. Her recollections of her disturbing, abusive childhood and the death of her sister make this a compulsive read. Her own fragile mental state and self- harm force the reader to question her even as she questions herself.
Sharp Objects is among Heather Gudenkauf's ten great thrillers centered on psychology and Peter Swanson's ten top thrillers that explore mental health.
--Marshal Zeringue
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