HER SISTER’S FRIENDS by Gia Pere

Title: HER SISTER’S FRIENDS
Series:  N/A
Author:  Gia Pere
Narrator:  Tiffany Williams
Length:  15 hours 33 minutes
Audible Release Date:  11.23.2021
Publisher:  Angela Pepper Publishing
Publish Date:  11.15.2021
Category/Genre:  Psychological Thriller, Satire
Recommended for:  18 +
Received from:  Angie Pepper (as an Audible gift)
Goodreads link:  Her Sister’s Friends
Date completed: 03.15.2022
 
Description from publisher: 
She always wanted everything her big sister had.
Evie Laurent grew up in the shadow of her perfect older sister, Luna. Since they were young girls, she’d always longed to be a part of Luna’s attractive social circle.
 
Evie gets her wish later in life when she begins dating Kyle Turner, a friend of her sister’s.
 
But Kyle is not just a grown-up version of the handsome boy he used to be. The new Kyle is secretive and controlling, going so far as trying to stop Evie from purchasing her dream home - a house that seems oddly familiar to her and Luna’s entire group of friends.
 
Evie buys the house anyway and soon discovers disturbing evidence she’s been there before. But why can’t she remember?
 
If these walls could talk, the house might tell her everything.
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HER SISTER’S FRIENDS is the second book in the Domestic Thrillers series.  This can be read as a stand-alone psychological thriller.  I only wish I had read the first book because I loved this one so much.
 
Mysteries tend to be either cozy (cute) or gory.  This is neither.  It’s hellishly realistic without the blood and guts of super-realism.
 
I loved this story.  Going back and forth in time, but at the right times to keep the story moving forward.  Filling in the blanks in Evie’s mind a little at a time, her questioning nature pushes to solve the mystery of why she feels she has previously been to a house that she bought to flip for her boss.
 
The relationships between the characters were what was really real.  Sibling rivalry, hero worship (Evie idolized her sister’s friends when she was 11), and the disappointment of finding that the adults in your life were flawed when you were a child.  We all seem to find that out when we become the failing adults!
 
This new penname for Angie Pepper / Angela Pepper is for her darker musings.  I say, “muse away!”  This was fabulous.
 
Narrator:  Tiffany Williams is always wonderful as a narrator and did a beautiful job of creating unique voices for each character (though Zoe Riddle’s voice was in there as a new character – I guess that can’t be helped.)
 
 
Domestic Thrillers Series:
1.      His Last Wife
2.     Her Sister’s Friends
 
Also from Angela Pepper:

• Funny Ladies

• Love Singer

• The Mystery of Broken Shell Island & Other Fantasy Tales

Baker Street Neighborhood Romances (written as Angie Pepper):
1.      Romancing the Flower Shop Girl
2.     Romancing the Complicated Girl 
3.     Honey, We Missed Our Honeymoon
4.    Dating the Funny Waitress
5.     Boyfriend Wanted, Must Love Dancing
6.    Handful of Peaches (Peaches Monroe’s Diary #1)
7.     Whole Lotta Peaches (Peaches Monroe’s Diary #2)
8.    Everything Is Peaches (Peaches Monroe’s Diary #3)
Diamond Files Mysteries:
1.      Girl in the Shadows
Eli Carter and the Ghost Hackers series:
1.      The Cat Who Went Bump in the Night
2.     The Ghost Who Wasn’t There
3.     The Dog Who Barked Fire
Restless Spirits series:
1.      Interview with a Ghost
2.     Date with a Ghost
3.     Dancing with a Ghost
Stormy Day Mysteries:
1.      Death of a Dapper Snowman
2.     Death of a Crafty Knitter
3.     Death of a Batty Genius
4.    Death of a Modern King
5.     Death of a Double Dipper
Wisteria Witches series:
1.            Wisteria Witches
2.           Wicked Wisteria
3.           Wisteria Wonders
4.          Watchful Wisteria
5.           Wisteria Wyverns
6.          Wolves of Wisteria (City Hall #1)
7.           Wisteria Wrinkle (City Hall #2)
8.          Wardens of Wisteria (Daybreak #1)
9.          Wisteria Warned (Daybreak #2)
10.      Wishful Wisteria (Daybreak #3)
11.        Wisteria Woven (Daybreak #4)
12.       Winter in Wisteria 
12.5 Critter Calamity
13.    Wisteria Wedding
14.    Wayward Wisteria
15.    Wisteria Wildcard
 

 
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