What She Never Said

by Catharine Riggs, Joyce Bean (Read by), Amy Rubinate (Read by), Timothy Andrés Pabon (Read by)

Overview

People are dying at a luxury retirement community . . . and not from natural causes.

Ruth Mosby is the VP of operations at Serenity Acres, where the privileged elite go to die. For a hefty fee, wealthy retirees can live the good life in this posh Santa Barbara community—even after they outlive their money. Ruth thinks this is a fine arrangement, but the savvy new boss has a new rule: if you can’t pay, you can’t stay.

Ruth is deeply disturbed when destitute residents start dying at an alarming rate, as if on cue. Even more troubling, a macabre note accompanies each departed guest. Surviving guests whisper about an “Angel” who assists with suicides. Ruth has another word for it: murder.

Ruth enlists her neighbor, an ex-detective named Zach, to discover the Angel’s secret identity. However, the two have a painful history, and Ruth has dark secrets all her own. To solve the mystery, Ruth must descend from her golden tower—but can she bear the consequences of revealing her own sinister truths?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781721356645
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	09/10/2019
Series:	Santa Barbara Suspense Series , #2
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 1.12(d)

About the Author

Catharine Riggs lives and writes on California’s central coast. Before turning to fiction writing, Riggs worked as a business banker, an adjunct college instructor, and a nonprofit executive. What She Never Said is her second novel. Visit the author online at www.catharineriggs.com.

Editorial Reviews

In [the] clever second suspense novel set in Santa Barbara, Calif.…Riggs keeps the tension high to the dramatic climax. Readers will look forward to the next installment.” —Publishers Weekly

“Riggs’ latest is a well-wrought mix of mystery and melodrama…a lively, winning formula, guaranteed to hold you spellbound.” —Mystery Scene Magazine

“Real-life problems, intriguing characters, greed, passion, and dark secrets are all neatly packed into Catharine Riggs’ newest thriller What She Never Said, a compelling read that will keep you awake well into the night.” —T.R. Ragan, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Lizzy Gardner Series

“Often tense, always page turning, and with well-judged touches of dark humour.” —Ashley Dyer, award-winning author of Splinter in the Blood

“Riggs again delivers a compulsive, unreliable and chilling narrative decades in the making. Beneath the weight of metastasizing secrets, idyllic veneers buckle to reveal shocking truths that will haunt readers long after the final page.” —P. J. Vernon, author of the debut thriller When You Find Me

From the Publisher

07/15/2019

In Riggs’s clever second suspense novel set in Santa Barbara, Calif. (after 2018’s What She Gave Away), a corporation solely concerned with profit has bought Serenity Acres, a retirement community for the wealthy. Ruth Mosby, the community’s v-p of operations, must work with the ruthless new director, whose job she coveted. When elderly residents start dying and someone leaves a note with each person’s name and death date beside each body, Ruth asks her former police detective neighbor, Zach Richards, to quietly investigate. If a mercy killer is responsible, that could destroy the community’s reputation. Meanwhile, Adam, Ruth’s addict son, returns home, and Zach persuades Ruth, against her better judgment, to help Adam get a job in the Serenity Acres kitchen. The tension rises when Adam discovers the corpse of a nurse who supplied drugs to workers. To complicate matters, Adam and Zach lie about the incident. More murders follow. Riggs keeps the tension high to the dramatic climax. Readers will look forward to the next installment. Agent: Rebecca Scherer, Jane Rotrosen Agency. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

08/01/2019

Serenity Acres, an exclusive nursing home in Santa Barbara, CA, has just been bought out by a larger competitor, and change is in the air. This does not sit well with Ruth Mosby, VP of Operations, who is loyal to the residents and suspects that they are not going to get the better end of this deal. To add to her discomfort, there have been an unusually high number of deaths in the past few months, and rumors abound about "The Goodbye Club"—a secret society promoting euthanasia. Fortunately, Ruth has just hired her neighbor Zach, a retired police officer, to work security and implores him to look into these deaths. Zach and Ruth are more than neighbors, though; they are inexorably linked by a shared secret from decades ago that plagues them both to this day. Told with alternating voices, including that of the killer, this novel explores the devastating effects of secrets kept and the power they can hold over us and the ones we love. VERDICT This second in the "Santa Barbara" series (What She Gave Away) will work well for fans of suspense who enjoy a good yarn with flawed yet sympathetic characters.—Amy Nolan, St. Joseph, MI

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