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Big Lies in a Small Town
Diane Chamberlain
Narrator Susan Bennett
13 hours
Published Jan 2020 by St Martin’s Press
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This light mystery had two main characters, both women, years apart, a mural, the thread that ties them together.
Anna, the past timeline character, is a woman artist who wins the post of painting a town mural. She’s strong and independent in a time when single woman were still not normally in positions of power or leadership. And certainly in a small town, where the beloved local painter didn’t win the post, there is much animosity that Anna must work through. The mural was never provided to the town and Anna went missing, leaving a mystery that has yet been unsolved.
Morgan, the current timeline character, has made poor decisions that have taken away her ability to have control over her own life. She is offered a once in a lifetime opportunity to clean and restore the mural that Anna had originally painted, under very specific circumstances.
As she works on the restoration, she uncovers the secrets that surround Anna’s disappearance.
The story is intriguing, a light mystery that beings with questions surrounding why Morgan would be offered this opportunity, grows into what happened to Anna and end with a resolution to both. The characters are well developed. Anna was very likable and I connected to her right away. Morgan, less so.
I tried not to run ahead of the storyline to guess what might be happening, although that was a bit hard as the storyline often plodded along with no real urgency.
I felt that overall, it was a decent story, but didn’t require the length to tell it.
