Good Bad Girl – Book Review

Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Alice Feeney, returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises.

Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth.

Edith may have been tricked into a nursing home, but at eighty-years-young, she’s planning her escape. Patience works there, cleaning messes and bonding with Edith, a kindred spirit. But Patience is lying to Edith about almost everything.

Edith’s own daughter, Clio, won’t speak to her. And someone new is about to knock on Clio’s door…and their intentions aren’t good.

With every reason to distrust each other, the women must solve a mystery with three suspects, two murders, and one victim. If they do, they might just find out what happened to the baby who disappeared, the mother who lost her, and the connections that bind them.

In the style of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors, Good Bad Girl is a thriller in which nobody can be trusted and the twists come fast and furious.

This is the third Alice Feeney book I have read–my favorite so far being Rock, Paper and Scissors, which I couldn’t put the book down. Good Bad Girl follows the story of three women named Clio, Patience (which is not really her real name) and Frannie who all got embroiled in each other’s lives and got involved in murders–three suspects, two murders and one victim. It also follows about an incident that happened twenty years ago when a six-month old baby was abducted during the mother’s day.

The story is told in the POV’s of Clio, Patience, Frannie and Edith. They are nearly all unreliable characters with history. Edith is a resident at a care house, Patience works at the care house and is known as Ladybug by Edith, Clio is the daughter of Edith and Frannie is the mother of Patience, whose name is Nellie. There is some sort of connection between the four women and the whole story begins when a care manager at the care home was murdered. The story is a little bit slow paced but towards the middle of the book, it got fast paced. Not many twists or turns but this book is actually a page turner. However, in my opinion, this book wasn’t great as her previous books Rock, Paper and Scissors, His and Hers, which I simply couldn’t put the book down. However, I feel this was actually an OK thriller and not really her best.

Overall, this book worth 4 stars in my opinion.