Rosebush by Michele Jaffe

Title: Rosebush

Author: Michele Jaffe

Publisher: Atom

Published: February 2011

ISBN: 978 1907 410383

Rating: 5/5 with merits!!

Jane has been hit by a car and left for dead and is now suffering from amnesia.  She is sure someone is out to kill her – so when she starts receiving threatening phone calls in her hospital room, along with mysterious gifts, she tries to tell the drs and her parents, none of whom believe her.

*Wow* is the first word I can think of for this!  This is a spine chiller and one that creeped me out whilst I was reading it.  Although I had a few suspects who could have tried to murder Jane, right up until the person is revealed I still wasn’t sure – there’s more plot twists in this than you can shake a stick at, and all of them are valid!  The thing that makes it so good is Jane has to remember…and as her memory returns, so do snippets of what led up to the night of her being run down. Make sure you've got a sofa to hide behind if you read this!

I’m glad I decided to read another of Jaffe’s books – I'm looking forward to the next.

Book synopsis:

Jane is found, near death, in a rosebush - a victim of hit and run. But as she's convalescing she realizes that her friends' stories and her memories of what happened that night aren't adding up. And now the only thing she does know is that one of her friends isn't so friendly. One of them tried to kill her. Sometimes the truth is a very thorny thing...

Source - bought

Ghost Flower by Michele Jaffe

Title: Ghost Flower                                                                         

Author: Michele Jaffe

Publisher: Atom

Published: April 2012

ISBN: 978 1907 411083

Rating: 4.5/5

The cover is beautiful, with ornate gold flowers & leafs over a female character.

Eve has gone from foster home to foster home and works at a café.  When things go wrong she accepts an offer from Baine and Bridgette, who offer her an insane amount of money to return with them as their long lost cousin who disappeared after he best friend committed suicide; all this so they can claim their fortune four years early.

What enfolds is a multitude of deceit, lies and mystery as Eve assumes the identity of Aurora and tries to find her place.  In doing so she begins to unravel some of the families secrets – will she live to tell the tale?

A well crafted thriller!  The perpetrator remained a surprise until the last.

Book synopsis:

'I am an imposter. A fake. A fraud. But everything that follows is the truth and nothing but the truth. I have no reason to lie anymore.' Eve has been living hand-to-mouth, trying to forget old scars from her foster homes and to avoid getting any new ones from her sleazy boss. So when she's offered a way out - $100,000 to pretend to be somebody she's not - she knows she'd be a fool not to take it. But it soon becomes clear that her life will be at risk unless she can work out exactly what happened to the girl she's been asked to impersonate. Trapped in a web of lies and deceit, Eve is desperate to learn the truth, even if it means facing up to a past filled with murderous secrets.

Source – Many thanks to Atom, a copy was received in return for an honest review.