The Body

by Gail Matelson

Behind closed doors, one family’s very fractured life journey remains hidden. The mother, Jenny Bowen, was traumatized long ago when her best friend was murdered, but it is the day that Jenny becomes the victim of murder that her family must confront a murder investigation that reveals long held secrets.



From beginning to end, this fast paced story will keep you engaged and curious!

65 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 4, 2021

About the author

It wasn't until I returned from a year-long, solo driving trip around the United States that I wrote my first book, a personal memoir that I haven't as yet published. Thoroughly enjoying the experience of writing, I spontaneously wrote my first mystery novel. The experience was so 'novel', the characters so willing to tell their own story, that I never stopped writing. Twenty-one books and seventeen years later, my unique stories cover a wide spectrum, from humorous metaphysical fantasy in "Last 90 Days, Archie Trilogy Book 1," and magical realism in "Between the Trees," to a psychological thriller in "The Building." Blending multiple genres, my stories have inspiring stories of transformation, as well as humorous and romantic threads woven into the plots.

Reviews

[Aubrey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Intriguing

A man realizing his body and image has changed with age. A woman who is dead and he husband wondering what she was doing as the police were in their house. Was she watching the excitement going on in their house? Was she watching from above and realizing it was her body the police was looking at? Or was she watching trying to figure out who's body it is dead in the house? As the officials kept busy doing their job Desmond is reminiscing over things in the house he shared with now his late wife, Jenny. After he talked with detectives he reminds himself of how he first met Jenny. It was at a park where she found her best friends body. What about her "best friend"  Savannah's death caused Jenny to isolate herself, treat her kids bad and treat her husband bad? Now that Jenny's dead are the two cases linked? Was Jenny really who she claimed? Who was Savannah? Who was Desmond?

[Star Christopher]

I liked the storyline, but there were a few spelling and grammar errors in the writing, and the ending was a bit blunt, adding a little bit of confusion.