Tuesday, December 03, 2024

Eight novels about women keeping secrets

Midge Raymond is the author of the novels Floreana and My Last Continent, the short-story collection Forgetting English, and, with coauthor John Yunker, the mystery novel Devils Island. Her writing has appeared in TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the Los Angeles Times magazine, Chicago Tribune, Poets & Writers, and many other publications. Raymond has taught at Boston University, Boston’s Grub Street Writers, Seattle’s Hugo House, and San Diego Writers, Ink. She lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she is co-founder of the boutique publisher Ashland Creek Press.

[The Page 69 Test: My Last Continent; Writers Read: Midge Raymond (June 2016)]

At CrimeReads Raymond tagged eight books "about women with secrets and how they hide them (from the world and within themselves) and how their secrets are devastatingly revealed to the other characters and to the reader." One title on the list:
Find Me by Alafair Burke

Find Me is about a woman with secrets even she cannot uncover; Hope Miller knows only that she was found in New Jersey, having been thrown from a vehicle, with no idea of who she is or where she came from. She has started a new life, but then she disappears again—and it is up to her best friend and a homicide detective to find out why.
Read about another title on the list.

Find Me is among Bradeigh Godfrey's eight thrillers featuring characters with memory disorders.

--Marshal Zeringue