This is Jamie Mason's second book. I really enjoyed the first one. I liked this one too but not as much. It was what I call a "slippery book." There were many moments where I thought I understood what the character was getting at but I wasn't 100% sure. For myself I just prefer not to have to infer too much about what is going on. The story was told as an extended series of flashbacks that basically told this woman's whole life interspersed throughout a car drive to the denouement at the end of the book. The form worked pretty well and I kept turning pages to see where she was going and why. Most of the book was really just the heroine thinking things over in her head and remembering and reviewing what she thought then vesus hinting what she she knows now as she drove along. I'm not real sure what I felt about her. I liked her when she was actively deducing things, I didn't really like her while she was burying her head in the sand for years and whining about how she just wanted to be normal to the extent that she was an idiot about how she lived her life.

I will definitely try Ms. Mason's next book. ( )

I had a hard time finishing this book. It just didn't grab my attention. Seemed to be a lot of back and forth and no real development of the story. ( )

Straight arrow Dee rebelled against her spy games upbringing and married what she thought of as a perfectly normal man and lived a perfectly normal life. To her surprise, she starts playing the spy games to uncover her husband's secret life and that he wants her dead. Her mom's cohorts in the CIA come to her rescue. ( )

A good read. The writer takes you a little outside the conventional boundaries of a psychological thriller. The characters are vivid and mysterious. It's like Dee is having a conversation with her mother, who passed away three years go. But Dee is remembering her upbringing and this helps her out when she needs it. Really good book. ( )

Wow, this author's first book, Three Graves Full and the second book, Monday's Lie are like day and night. I really enjoyed Three Graves Full but found myself not liking anything about Monday's Lie. Nothing in this book captured my attention and stuck with me. In fact as I was reading this book it felt like I was in a daze. I was going through the motions but nothing sparked my attention. I thought it would get better as the story progressed but no such hope. I found myself skimming the rest of the book from the middle to the end. I am hoping that the next book is better like the author's first book. ( )