What She Gave Away, Catharine Riggs
What She Gave Away, Catharine Riggs
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What She Gave Away

Author: Catharine Riggs

Narrator: Renee Raudman, Amy Rubinate

Unabridged: 9 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/04/2018

Synopsis

Revenge is anything but sweet in this twisty thriller about two women with very different lives locked in the same deadly game.Imagining the best way to destroy a person’s happiness is Crystal Love’s favorite game. Devious and unpolished, the loan analyst couldn’t be more out of place in her new town of Santa Barbara, where the beautifully manicured women never age and the ocean views stretch farther than the million-dollar lawns. And yet her eye for the power dynamics at play in this tony community is dead accurate.Kathi Wright, on the other hand, has made it her life’s work to fit in with the plastic people who surround her. But when her husband—a wealthy bank president—dies suddenly, she’s left with nothing. Then the FBI shows up, asking questions she can’t answer and freezing assets she once took for granted.While Kathi struggles to outrun the mess caused by her husband’s mysterious death, Crystal seems focused on her game. But why? And who are her targets?Spanning two years and told in Crystal’s and Kathi’s alternating voices, this tautly plotted novel reveals the power of choice and the price of revenge.

About Catharine Riggs

Catharine Riggs lives and writes on California’s central coast. A graduate of UCLA with an MBA from Drake University, Riggs is a former business banker, adjunct college instructor, and nonprofit executive who spends her free time traveling and exploring the outdoors. What She Gave Away is her debut novel. She is currently at work on the second novel in her Santa Barbara suspense series.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephen on October 12, 2018

Follow Crystal, a plus size woman, as she takes revenge on Kathi, the skinny wife of a bank’s president. This thriller is set in California and is about not only about Crystal’s revenge but size issues, lifestyle choices, workplace politics, corruption, misuse of power and banking. I liked how this s......more

Goodreads review by Julie Parks on August 29, 2018

With a very intriguing synopsis this was one of those books where you start with page one, then chapter one...then just a little bit more...just one more page...oh, my really? Well, I gotta see what will happen when she...oh, no...it can't be, how did I not see it sooner...WTF...OK, one last page an......more

Goodreads review by Anissa on September 28, 2019

Talk about a quick read. I stayed up late reading this one and could not go to sleep until I'd finished. I'm giving no spoilers but I will say that as suspense reads go, this one plays the tension well throughout. Crystal and Katie are the dual narrators here that are thoroughly unlikeable (one is p......more

Goodreads review by Angie on September 14, 2018

I know that this book has received a LOT of praise. I did not enjoy it. I tried. I wasn't invested in any of characters, and there were a few things that REALLY got under my skin - like the bitter, angry fat-lady business. Crystal had plenty of actual reasons to be angry and bitter, so why did we ne......more

Goodreads review by P.J. on October 12, 2018

Catharine Riggs (whom I was lucky enough to meet at a conference) delivers a wallop of a debut in WHAT SHE GAVE AWAY. Told from alternating points of view, this novel delivers the twists and white-knuckle suspense we've come to expect, but at its heart is a story of two very complex and very differe......more

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