What They Don't Know by Susan Furlong Book Tour and Giveaway! @Furlong_Sue @SeventhStreetBooks @SeventhStBooks @seventhstbooks

 

What They Don't Know

by Susan Furlong

May 9 - June 3, 2022 Virtual Book Tour

Synopsis:

A picture-perfect suburban life fractures. . . and a darker reality bubbles beneath the surface.

Mona Ellison's life is as perfect as the porcelain dolls lined up on her shelves. She has a successful husband, a loving son, a beautiful home, and a supportive group of girlfriends ever ready for their weekly wine night.

But when Mona’s son gets entangled with the wrong crowd and runs away from home, her blissful suburban world begins to unravel. She tells her friends that boys will be boys, that he’ll be back as soon as his money runs dry . . . but deep down she knows there’s something else going on.

Then the police show up at Mona’s door. A young girl has turned up dead in their quiet town, and her missing son is the prime suspect.

Determined to reunite with her son and prove his innocence, Mona follows an increasingly cryptic trail of clues on social media, uncovering a sinister side of suburbia and unveiling lies and betrayal from those she trusted most. And as Mona spirals further from her once cozy reality, a devastating revelation shatters everything she thought she knew. Now the only thing she’s sure of is that she can’t trust anyone . . . not even herself.

With unrelenting psychological suspense and a wicked twist, What They Don’t Know marries small-town thriller and domestic mystery—suburban paranoia at its best.

What They Don’t Know Book Love:

"Part domestic thriller, part small-town mystery, What They Don’t Know is everything suspense fans want: characters who'll make you think twice, a subversive plot, and pages that seemingly turn themselves the deeper you get into the story. In this portrait of suburban life tinged with malice and intrigue, paranoia lurks just around the corner. Read it at night. Don’t plan on sleep." (Tosca Lee, NYT bestselling author of The Line Between)

Book Details:

Genre: Suspense
Published by: Seventh Street Books
Publication Date: May 17th, 2022
Number of Pages: 286
ISBN: 1645060403 (ISBN13: 9781645060406)
Purchase Links: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads

FB: @SeventhStreetBooks  

Twitter: @SeventhStBooks

Instagram: @seventhstbooks 

Read an excerpt:

It was the last Tuesday of the month, our normal book club night, and we were gathered at my house—Selma, Alice, Tara, and me—settled in the living room, Moroccan rug plush beneath us, immersed in the decor’s eclectic mix of whimsy and Old-World aesthetic. This would be our last book club meeting, but it was more than that, really. It was a pulled thread in the carefully woven tapestry of our friendships that had begun in college and endured careers, weddings, our first-borns, and remained constant through affairs, divorces, and much worse …

***

Excerpt from What They Don’t Know by Susan Furlong. Copyright 2022 by Susan Furlong. Reproduced with permission from Susan Furlong. All rights reserved.

My Thoughts

What starts out as a book that could be considered predictable ends up nothing but. Mona and her husband are selling their house so they can downsize and get closer to the clinic that he has. Well with some of her money of course. They appear to be the perfect family, he is a psychiatrist, she has a collection of dolls, and their son Gus has started to act out. Nothing perfect there.

Mona and her neighbors have their last book club meeting before Mona moves out of the neighborhood. They have all been friends for a long time so it is bittersweet. Mona is worried about her son, Gus, he has left home and no one knows where he is. Then a body turns up, a friend of Gus, Mona thinks that he had something to do with her death.

Nothing is as it seems as the story goes along, Mona's husband Ben goes off to a convention, or so he told her. Mona starts to unravel when she thinks her husband is cheating on her with one of the neighbors. Two detectives,  Reyes and his partner, Meyers arrive to question Mona regarding her husband and the dead girl, Mia. Plus she found that her husband had been overmedication her to the point that she was becoming delusional. Then there is her obsession with all of her dolls. 

At this point, I was getting a bit confused about who the bad guys or good guys were. Then another body turns up, Tara, a good friend to both Mona and Ben, bludgeoned to death in a barn. As the investigation continues, the reader finds out that Gus, did not just leave home, he actually committed suicide. Did he have anything to do with Mia and her murder? Mona finds that she has been a victim of her husband's narcissism, he is manipulating her entire life even as to what she thinks is real or not.

The twists and turns in this psychological thriller just keep coming in this fast-paced read. What you think you know or have figured out, is deceiving. The ending threw me for a loop for sure. If you like this kind of story, well even if you don't, give it a try. It will make you rethink what you know about loving families! What they don't know? 

I give it 4 stars! I think that I will read more by this author!

I received the book for review purposes only.

Susan Furlong is the author of eleven novels including SHATTERED JUSTICE, a New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year. She also contributes, under a pen name, to the New York Times bestselling Novel Idea series. Her most recent novel, WHAT THEY DON'T KNOW, has been praised by reviewers as an engrossing and delightfully creepy read. She resides in Illinois with her husband and children.

Catch Up With Susan Furlong:
www.SusanFurlong.com
Goodreads
BookBub - @SusanFurlongAuthor
Instagram - @susanfurlong
Twitter - @Furlong_Sue
Facebook - @SusanFurlongAuthor

Tour Participants:

Visit these other great hosts on this tour for more great reviews, interviews, guest posts, and giveaways!

05/09 Review @ Lynchburg Reads
05/09 Showcase @ Silver’s Reviews
05/10 Interview @ Novels Alive
05/10 Review @ flightnurse70_book_reviews
05/10 Showcase @ Books, Ramblings, and Tea
05/11 Review @ Wall-to-wall Books
05/11 Showcase @ 411 ON BOOKS, AUTHORS, AND PUBLISHING NEWS
05/11 Showcase @ The Authors Harbor
05/12 Review @ The Mystery of Writing
05/12 Showcase @ I Read What You Write
05/13 Review @ Book Reviews From an Avid Reader
05/13 Review @ Kritters Ramblings
05/14 Review @ Review Thick And Thin
05/15 Interview @ Mythical Books
05/15 Showcase @ Brooke Blogs
05/16 Review @ rozierreadsandwine
05/17 Review @ pages_and_pups
05/18 Review @ Cover To Cover Cafe
05/19 Showcase @ The Bookwyrm
05/20 Review @ The world as I see it
05/21 Review @ Reading Is My SuperpPower
05/22 Review @ @ mokwip8991
05/23 Review @ Book Reviews & More by Kathy
05/24 Showcase @ Nesies Place
05/25 Review @ Nanasbookreviews
05/26 Review @ Quiet Fury Books
05/27 Interview @ CMash Reads
05/29 Review @ 5 Minutes for Books
05/30 Review @ Celticladys Reviews
05/31 Review @ erikalaceyreads
06/01 Review @ One More Book To Read
06/02 Showcase @ Books Blog
06/02 Showcase @ Geauxgetlit
06/03 Review @ Jersey Girl Book Reviews
06/03 Review @ Melissa As Blog

GIVEAWAY:

This is a giveaway hosted by Partners in Crime Tours for What They Don’t Know by Susan Furlong. See the widget for entry terms and conditions. Void where prohibited.

Get More Great Reads at Partners In Crime Tours