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Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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AND SHE WAS

And She Was, March 2012
by Alison Gaylin

Harper
Featuring: Carol Wentz; Brenna Spector; Neff
352 pages
ISBN: 0061878200
EAN: 9780061878206
Kindle: B005LBXS5M
Paperback / e-Book
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AND SHE WAS
Alison Gaylin

Reviewed by Kathyrn Little
Posted June 22, 2012

Thriller

AND SHE WAS features Brenna who investigate disappearances and specializes in those involving children. Readers meet her just as she is beginning a new investigation.

Brenna, has a disorder that leaves her remembering every single thing she has ever learned or done in life. While this sounds like a great gift, it can't be all good...who wants to remember what they ate 7 1/2 years ago? Her gift does make her perfect as an investigator though. She is able to recall every person she meets as well as their mannerisms, characteristics, motives. However her gift can also be a burden, as too many memories can build up making it hard to focus on the important ones to the investigation.

AND SHE WAS is a thriller guaranteed to keep you turning pages until the last one is turned.

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SUMMARY

On a summer afternoon in 1998, six-year-old Iris Neff walked away from a barbecue in her small suburban town . . . and vanished. Missing persons investigator Brenna Spector has a rare neurological disorder that enables her to recall every detail of every day of her life. A blessing and a curse, it began in childhood, when her older sister stepped into a strange car never to be seen again, and it’s proven invaluable in her work. But it hasn’t helped her solve the mystery that haunts her above all othersβ€”and it didn’t lead her to little Iris. When a local woman, Carol Wentz, disappears eleven years later, Brenna uncovers bizarre connections between the missing woman, the long-gone little girl . . . and herself.

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