Review: All Her Little Secrets

All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

 I was provided an ARC via Netgalley, however I ended up listening to the audiobook.  All opinions are my own.

This was a good political thriller full of social commentary.  The book is full of secrets, some stemming from the main character's past and some that she must uncover to save her future.  Ellice Littlejohn is a lawyer at a transportation company.  She has worked hard to get where she is from the small town she is from.  She doesn't like to talk about her past or her personal life.  In fact, most of her friends and coworkers don't really know anything about her.  Ellice likes to have her life in order, so when her entire life is thrown headlong into chaos when her boss is murdered she isn't sure what to do.  Ellice quickly finds herself in the middle of the executive suite and in the middle of a shady corporate business deal.  As she begins to question the business dealings of her new peers, they begin to question everything about her and the secrets she has worked so hard to keep may not be secret much longer.

The main character is supposed to be extremely smart and well educated, yet she was portrayed as having no common sense.  Not that there aren't real people like that out there, but in her inner monologues she knew what the right choice was and made the wrong one anyway.  I'm not a fan when this technique is used in writing to make the main character, especially a female MC look lesser.   This just goes to show that secrets and lies always backfire in the end.   At times it felt as if her image was more important than saving her own life and solving the crime.

Overall this was an entertaining listen.  The audio narrator did a good job and the story kept me engaged.

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