Fiction Pick of the Week: Now You See Her

Now You See Her by Joy Fielding 2011

A Canadian pick in honour of Canada Day! 

Canadian author Joy Fielding’s latest book is a gripping suspense story set in the Irish city of Cork.  Marcy Taggert travels to Ireland alone, seeking solace for a broken heart.  Her marriage has ended after the loss of her twenty-one-year old daughter, an apparent suicide.  Only her upturned canoe was found floating in Georgian Bay.

Despite her family’s insistence that Devon is dead, Marcy thinks she sees her daughter on a day trip from Dublin to Cork.  She returns the next day to launch a desperate search to discover the truth.  She meets an assortment of interesting characters, some sinister, but the reader is never sure where this story is taking them.

I haven’t read Joy Fielding’s novels in a long while, and am pleased to find that an engaging heroine and a compelling plot are still her hallmark.