Finders Keepers by Natalie Barelli Published by Dreamscape Media on September 19, 2023
Genres: Psychological Thrillers
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Find the Author: Website, Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon, Pinterest, BookBub“You’re not going to murder me in the night, are you?” Emily asks.
“Hahaha. That’s funny,” I say.
Of course, I’m not going to murder her in the night. I need my laptop back first. That’s the whole point of making friends with Emily Harper, author of the hugely successful novel Diary of an Octopus. So I could get into her apartment and take back what’s mine.
Emily doesn’t know who I really am. She thinks I’m her biggest fan, her new best friend who happens to need a place to stay for a few days. She doesn’t realize the laptop she found—and took—from a busy airport almost two years ago was mine. I don’t care about the laptop, just what's on it: my diary.
I kept it many years ago as a troubled thirteen-year-old girl with a vivid imagination and a flair for the dramatic. Now she's published it as her own.
She thinks it's a story about a schoolgirl’s crush on her teacher, but she’s wrong. It’s a story about a murder. Two murders, if you count the hamster.
She thought it was okay to make a few changes and publish it under her own name, but she was wrong about that too.
Because, sometimes, truth is deadlier than fiction.
My Thoughts
Rose Dunmore was shocked to see the author’s novel, “Diary of an Octopus,” being promoted at a bookshop. She wrote her diary at 13, stolen with her computer two years ago. The novel was a fictionalized version of her diary with a different ending. If her laptop journal was found, she could end up in prison. She bought a copy, relieved to see a positive conclusion, but remembered the terrible thing she documented. Rose panicked and devised a plan to retrieve her laptop at any cost, but she was not alone in playing this risky game. The dark truth about events from nine years ago emerged with twists and turns, leading to a satisfying conclusion. The author’s writing style was captivating, and I highly recommend this book.
Thank you to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for allowing me to listen to and review this audiobook.
About Natalie Barelli
You will usually find Natalie Barelli reading a book, and that book will more likely than not be a psychological thriller. When not absorbed in the latest gripping page-turner, Natalie rides motorcycles, knits very badly and spends far too much time at the computer. She lives in Australia.
