Finders Keepers

By Natalie Barelli

Book Overview

"You're not going to murder me in the night, are you?" Emily asks. "Hahaha. That's funny," I say. Of course, I'm not going to murder her in the night. I need my laptop back first. That's the whole point of making friends with Emily Harper, author of the hugely successful novel Diary of an Octopus. So I could get into her apartment and take back what's mine. Emily doesn't know who I really am. She thinks I'm her biggest fan, her new best friend who happens to need a place to stay for a few days. She doesn't realize the laptop she found--and took--from a busy airport almost two years ago was mine. I don't care about the laptop, just what's on it: my diary. I kept it many years ago as a troubled thirteen-year-old girl with a vivid imagination and a flair for the dramatic. Now she's published it as her own. She thinks it's a story about a schoolgirl's crush on her teacher, but she's wrong. It's a story about a murder. Two murders, if you count the hamster. She thought it was okay to make a few changes and publish it under her own name, but she was wrong about that too. Because, sometimes, truth is deadlier than fiction.

• Format: MP3 CD
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CXZN5YDP
• ISBN13: 9798874752439
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Length: 1 Pages

Customer Reviews

Twisty Thriller!

With short, wild chapters unfolding a dark tale of murder with details captured in a diary lost and then found, I had fun reading this and being blown away by the twists that keep the story going and me reading far longer than I should have to find out what the real truth is! It is a great psychological thriller! Rose, self diagnosed psychopath, was certainly an interesting character. Not adverse to murder if it makes a problem go away. Especially if it is someone who has access to a private diary written at a dark and troubling time in her life. Not that I condone murder but it really would be awful to have private thoughts turned into a bestseller. Though that is just the first act! It get crazier from there and I really enjoyed the twists and unraveling of the past to something true. This story does have gaslighting and grooming, possible unreliable narrators, people wanting to use the diary to get famous, and wild schemes to get a certain laptop back. I had fun reading this, twisty craziness and all, and I am glad I got the chance to do so. I will definitely be looking into what else Natalie Barelli has written because she had me hooked for this whole story!