I recently traveled abroad and downloaded a plethora of Kindle books to read on my flights. I chose to read Mad Hatter’s Son assuming it was another spin-off of Alice in Wonderland and I could not have been more wrong.
Annie Collins is an OR nurse with an ex best friend that is an artist who married rich and subsequently forgot her existence, until she got sick. Typical, right? Libby calls Annie up one day asking for personal care because she was ill and nobody, including her husband, wanted to help her. Annie reluctantly agrees, but soon finds herself in some deeeeeep crap.
Libby isn’t ill in the traditional manner… She spurned an ex lover by letting herself become pregnant with a different lover’s child, while still being married to her husband. Libby is being poisoned by said ex lover. Libby turns up dead due to drug overdose, not from the poison, and now Annie is on a mission to find out what happened.
Amidst all this drama, Annie meets Ian Patterson and falls in love. He’s perfect, despite her beautiful lawyer neighbor being 10x more perfect than Ian *rolls eyes*.
Ian=horrible man, the worst kind of man. The king of manipulation. He is the spurned lover, is responsible for poison, the murder of Libby, the murder of the baby’s father, and the murder of a homeless man he hired as a hit-man to kill the baby’s father.
(Guess how he poisons Libby? That’s right. Tea. He had her favorite tea shipped to her doorstep once a month. That’s the one key comparison to Alice. Tea. And that he’s mad. He doesn’t make or sell hats. )
BUT.
He was seen. By a homeless woman with developmental delays.
Turns out Mad Hatter’s Son sounds like “Patterson” to the mentally disabled and from here on out the mystery is solved.
Ian is caught, Annie is borderline about to fall in love with the hottie neighbor, Angel (appropriately named), and all seems well? Nope.
Ian stalks from prison and makes Annie’s life a living hell.
Starbuck’s novels are your typical quick romances/mysteries that can be read in an hour or two is you sit down and read them. They aren’t captivating material that will explode the internet, but for what it’s worth, I found them pretty entertaining.
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