Ten years ago, a group of six friends spent a week at a
farmhouse in France. This farmhouse was rather nice as it
belonged to the wealthy family of one of the friends in
attendance. Also, an unofficial seventh member of the group
is the very beautiful Severine, a French girl staying in the
farmhouse next door to them. She spent lots of time with the
group as they had a swimming pool and her accommodations did
not. That week was supposed to be sort of a last hurrah
following graduation from college. As it turned out, the
week was nothing like they had planned.
Fast forward ten years to present day. The
narrator of the events is Kate, who was among the group
during that summer. At the time, she was with Seb, who was
everything she thought she wanted in a man, but who was
actually all wrong. Tom, another friend, is the one to call
her and deliver the news. He begins by asking her directly
if she remembered that summer. She told him that of course
she did and wondered why he had called her now when he had
not phoned her for months.
Tom delivers the news that Severine's body had been
discovered in a well that was on the farmhouse property. It
had been filled in ten years ago at the end of their stay.
No one had mentioned Severine in the ten years since that
week. Severine's death is ruled to be a homicide, which
meant that a French detective by the name of Alain Modan is
dispatched to London to question all of them.
During his investigation, he uncovers a few secrets that
seem to be rather damning. The return of Seb
and his wife, who is not Kate, adds to the mix. Then there
is Lara, Kate's
best friend, and Caro who seems to have a sort of pretend
friendship with everyone else, but she might be the one
keeping the darkest secrets of them all.
THE FRENCH GIRL is one of those mesmerizing books that is
almost impossible to set aside until reaching the final
conclusion. You will be on the edge of your seat all
throughout this tale of sadness and suspense. A book with
whiplash
events, THE FRENCH GIRL will keep you guessing until that
last page. I had a suspect in mind, but it always kept
changing. That is the secret to a great book: the ability to
draw the reader into the plot while being very mysterious as
to what is really happening.
If you have not had a chance to read THE FRENCH GIRL, do
yourself a huge favor and pick up a copy as soon as
possible. Lexie Elliott is certainly a new favorite for me.
She knows how to take her readers on dizzy twists and turns,
much like moving through a maze. The ending to THE FRENCH
GIRL is
extremely satisfying. Reading it feels like being on a
carnival ride and now you will get the chance
to experience one of the most exciting rides you have ever
had the pleasure of being on.
They were six university students from Oxford--friends
and sometimes more than friends--spending an idyllic week
together in a French farmhouse. It was supposed to be the
perfect summer getaway...until they met Severine, the
girl next door.
For Kate Channing, Severine was an unwelcome presence,
her inscrutable beauty undermining the close-knit group's
loyalties amid the already simmering tensions. And after
a huge altercation on the last night of the holiday, Kate
knew nothing would ever be the same. There are some
things you can't forgive. And there are some people you
can't forget...like Severine, who was never seen again.
Now, a decade later, the case is reopened when Severine's
body is found in the well behind the farmhouse.
Questioned along with her friends, Kate stands to lose
everything she's worked so hard to achieve as suspicion
mounts around her. Desperate to resolve her own shifting
memories and fearful she will be forever bound to the
woman whose presence still haunts her, Kate finds herself
buried under layers of deception with no one to set her
free...
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