Look for Her by Emily WinslowMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Look for Her
by Emily Winslow
on Tour February 12 - March 16, 2018
Synopsis:
Lilling might seem like an idyllic English village, but it’s home to a dark history. In 1976, a teenage girl named Annalise Wood disappeared, and though her body was later discovered, the culprit was never found. Decades later, Annalise maintains a perverse kind of celebrity, and is still the focus of grief, speculation, and for one young woman, a disturbing, escalating jealousy.
When DNA linked to the Annalise murder unexpectedly surfaces, cold case detective Morris Keene and his former partner, Chloe Frohmann, hope to finally bring closure to this traumatized community. But the new evidence instead undoes the case's only certainty: the buried body that had long ago been confidently identified as Annalise may be someone else entirely, and instead of answers, the investigators face only new puzzles.
Whose body was unearthed all those years ago, and what happened to the real Annalise? Is someone interfering with the investigation? And is there a link to a present-day drowning with eerie connections? With piercing insight and shocking twists, Emily Winslow explores the dark side of sensationalized crime in this haunting psychological thriller.
BOOK REVIEW
I didn't know that this book was the latest book in a series when I got a copy of it. All I saw was an interesting book and I just knew that I wanted to read it. I'm actually thrilled that there are several more books with Morris Keene and Chloe Frohman to read since I found this book to be awesome.
I'm a big fan of cold casebooks and the finding of a body presumed to be Annalise who disappeared decades ago intrigued me. What happened to her, and has the finding of the body something to do with a recent drowning? I was hooked and I loved that the book seemed to have a straightforward kind of story, but as the story progressed did the author twist and turn everything around so you realize that what you expected was just something that you had imagined thanks to a red herring. I especially enjoyed the ending! It felt just perfect! I really liked that the story turned out to be pretty different from what I expected and I enjoyed following the investigation into the missing girl especially when a death in present time seemed to have a connection to the finding of the body. Is there truly a link or is the drowning case just a coincidence? I will not go into details since I don't want to spoil the story.
As for the Morris Keene and Chloe Frohman. I understand there is a lot of history between them and that Morris daughter's arrest in the previous book has had an effect on their relationship. I'm curious to learn more and getting the chance will I definitely read the previous books to find out more. I'm really happy that I decided to read this book since I have now found a new series to read.
Look For Her is a great book that I recommend warmly!
I'm a big fan of cold casebooks and the finding of a body presumed to be Annalise who disappeared decades ago intrigued me. What happened to her, and has the finding of the body something to do with a recent drowning? I was hooked and I loved that the book seemed to have a straightforward kind of story, but as the story progressed did the author twist and turn everything around so you realize that what you expected was just something that you had imagined thanks to a red herring. I especially enjoyed the ending! It felt just perfect! I really liked that the story turned out to be pretty different from what I expected and I enjoyed following the investigation into the missing girl especially when a death in present time seemed to have a connection to the finding of the body. Is there truly a link or is the drowning case just a coincidence? I will not go into details since I don't want to spoil the story.
As for the Morris Keene and Chloe Frohman. I understand there is a lot of history between them and that Morris daughter's arrest in the previous book has had an effect on their relationship. I'm curious to learn more and getting the chance will I definitely read the previous books to find out more. I'm really happy that I decided to read this book since I have now found a new series to read.
Look For Her is a great book that I recommend warmly!
Trade Reviews:
“Using multiple narrators, as she did in The Start of Everything (2013), Winslow spins the plot to a satisfying and humane conclusion, with Keene and Frohmann again proving to be a winning pair.” —Booklist
“Winslow’s kaleidoscopic narrative technique, employing first-person accounts from multiple characters, makes for engaging reading.” —Publishers Weekly
“Look For Her is a nuanced, thought-provoking portrait of a crime and its aftermath. Beautifully written with an expertly twisty, surprising story, this is a must-read!” —Chevy Stevens, New York Times bestselling author of Never Let You Go
“Surprising and satisfying, you won't be able to stop turning the pages of Look For Her.” —Karen Dionne, author of The Marsh King’s Daughter
Book Details:
Genre: Psychological ThrillerPublished by: William MorrowPublication Date: February 13th 2018Number of Pages: 304ISBN: 006257258X (ISBN13: 9780062572585)Series: Keene and Frohmann #4 | Each is a stand alone novel
Read an excerpt:
From Chapter One
Annalise Williams (Wolfson College),
University Counselling Service,
recorded and transcribed by Dr. Laurie Ambrose
My mother picked the name Annalise for me because of a girl who was killed. Her name was Annalise Wood, and she went missing when she was sixteen. My mother was the same age when it happened. Annalise was lovely, much prettier than my sister and I ever became. She was the kind of girl you look at and think, "Of course someone would want to take her."
Don’t look at me like that. I know that what happened to her was awful. It just seems a very fine line between being the kind of person that others want to be with and be like and treat well, and being the kind of person that some others, just a few, sick others, want to take for themselves. That’s the same kind of person, isn’t it? The loved and lovely. Isn’t that from a poem somewhere? That’s what she was like. That’s the risk when you’re the kind of person who’s wanted. Good people want to be close to you, but the bad people want you too.
There were two photos of her that the media used most: her most recent school portrait, and a snapshot of her laughing, with the friends on either side cropped out. Taken together, they presented the two sides of a beautiful and perfect person: poised and thoughtful, and spontaneous and bubbly. The kind of person who deserves help and attention.
Realistically, if they wanted these pictures to help strangers identify her if they saw her out and about with the bad man, they should have used photos of her frowning or looking frightened. Either there weren’t any (which may well be the case; who would take a photo of that?), or they couldn’t bring themselves to advertise a version of her that was less than appealing. The narrative is important. If you want the “general public” to get worked up, you have to persuade. Attractiveness and innocence must be communicated, even if emphasising those traits makes the real person harder to recognise.
In the end, she was already dead, so it’s a good thing, I suppose, that they used the nice photos. They’re the images that everyone remembers. My mum was a teenager when those pictures were in the paper every day for weeks, then weekly for months. Annalise Wood was the most beautiful girl in the world. Everyone cared about her. It’s what any mother would wish for her child, to be the kind of person that everyone would care about and miss if she disappeared.
It wasn’t until Mum was over thirty that what really happened to Annalise Wood was discovered.
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Excerpt from Look for Her by Emily Winslow. Copyright © 2018 by Emily Winslow. Reprinted by permission of William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.
Annalise Williams (Wolfson College),
University Counselling Service,
recorded and transcribed by Dr. Laurie Ambrose
My mother picked the name Annalise for me because of a girl who was killed. Her name was Annalise Wood, and she went missing when she was sixteen. My mother was the same age when it happened. Annalise was lovely, much prettier than my sister and I ever became. She was the kind of girl you look at and think, "Of course someone would want to take her."
Don’t look at me like that. I know that what happened to her was awful. It just seems a very fine line between being the kind of person that others want to be with and be like and treat well, and being the kind of person that some others, just a few, sick others, want to take for themselves. That’s the same kind of person, isn’t it? The loved and lovely. Isn’t that from a poem somewhere? That’s what she was like. That’s the risk when you’re the kind of person who’s wanted. Good people want to be close to you, but the bad people want you too.
There were two photos of her that the media used most: her most recent school portrait, and a snapshot of her laughing, with the friends on either side cropped out. Taken together, they presented the two sides of a beautiful and perfect person: poised and thoughtful, and spontaneous and bubbly. The kind of person who deserves help and attention.
Realistically, if they wanted these pictures to help strangers identify her if they saw her out and about with the bad man, they should have used photos of her frowning or looking frightened. Either there weren’t any (which may well be the case; who would take a photo of that?), or they couldn’t bring themselves to advertise a version of her that was less than appealing. The narrative is important. If you want the “general public” to get worked up, you have to persuade. Attractiveness and innocence must be communicated, even if emphasising those traits makes the real person harder to recognise.
In the end, she was already dead, so it’s a good thing, I suppose, that they used the nice photos. They’re the images that everyone remembers. My mum was a teenager when those pictures were in the paper every day for weeks, then weekly for months. Annalise Wood was the most beautiful girl in the world. Everyone cared about her. It’s what any mother would wish for her child, to be the kind of person that everyone would care about and miss if she disappeared.
It wasn’t until Mum was over thirty that what really happened to Annalise Wood was discovered.
***
Excerpt from Look for Her by Emily Winslow. Copyright © 2018 by Emily Winslow. Reprinted by permission of William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.
Author Bio:
Emily Winslow is an American living in Cambridge, England. She trained as an actor at Carnegie Mellon University’s prestigious drama conservatory and earned a master’s degree in museum studies from Seton Hall University. For six years she wrote for Games magazine, creating increasingly elaborate and lavishly illustrated logic puzzles. She lives with her husband and two sons. She is the author of four novels and a memoir.
Sounds like a book for me. Thanks for the giveaway.
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I have this book in my current reads pile and hoping to get to it soon.
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