Review of:  Murder, Forgotten

Deb Richardson-Moore

This is a wonderfully crafted, evocative murder mystery that will have you questioning everything you think you know!  Julianna, a gifted author of murder mysteries, is losing touch with reality, drifting in and out of her own fictional tales and back and forth through time.  Her memory is such that she even forgets that her beloved husband, Connor, was recently stabbed to death in their own home with her letter-opener!  Could she have committed the crime herself?  If not, who did it and why?  Julianna’s adult daughter, Logan, helps her investigate as she shifts through clues in the home and tries to connect with the mother she never really knew.  Could her mother’s unfinished original manuscript hold the key?  There are a lot of potential suspects and red herrings, and I didn’t figure out the true culprit until the very end when all was finally revealed!  This is a psychological thriller at its best, brilliantly imagined and expertly written. I especially enjoyed the addition of Discussion Questions at the end for digging deeper into the book’s themes (family relationships, reality vs. fiction, writing, mental illness).