Finders Keepers

Barelli’s addictive latest (after Unforgivable) sees revelations from a woman’s private diary come back to haunt her. Rose Dunmore is scraping by in New York City when she learns of eerie similarities between her diary, which was stored in a laptop that went missing from LaGuardia Airport two years earlier, and author Emily Harper’s new bestseller. Among the salacious contents of Rose’s diary was an account of how her crush on her junior high school teacher led to her complicity in the murder of his wife. Posing as Iris, an Emily Harper superfan, Rose ingratiates herself into the author’s life in hopes of recovering her computer. Soon, she learns Emily knew more about Rose’s connection to the diary than expected. Then Rose receives unexpected news from a childhood friend that suggests she may not be as complicit in the violent events of her youth as she thought. Barelli makes the pages fly by, ensuring readers will root for Rose to recover her laptop even as new, frightening layers to her personality come to light. The twists never let up in this rollicking psychological thriller. Agent: Lynette Novak, Seymour Agency. (Feb.)