A Stranger's Game by Colleen Coble

A Stranger's Game
by Colleen Coble

ISBN-13: 9780785228578
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Released: January 4th 2022

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
Torie Bergstrom, a wealthy hotel heiress, hasn’t been back to Georgia since she was ten, but she’s happy to arrange a job for her best friend at one of the family properties on Jekyll Island. When Torie learns that her best friend has drowned, she knows this is more than a tragic accident: Lisbeth was terrified of water and wouldn’t have gone swimming by choice.

Torie goes to the hotel under an alias, trying to find answers. When she meets Joe Abbott and his daughter rescuing baby turtles, she finds a tentative ally. But the more they dig, the more ties they find to Torie’s mother’s death twenty years before. Someone will risk anything—even more murder—to hide the truth.


My Review:
A Stranger's Game is a Christian romantic suspense. Unfortunately, there were a lot of unexplained plot holes in this story. The clues about means, motive, and opportunity (implied rather than actually asked about) implied certain skills and levels of access that at least one suspect needed. At the end, the main bad person was uncovered, and I wasn't surprised due to previous hints. But while the main things were explained (who killed Torie's mother, who were those divers, and the goal of the bad people), so many incidences along the way to the end were left unexplained. Like why kill one person for uncovering a planned crime, kill another person who helped cover up the first murder, then voluntarily leave a clue to the plot on Torie's doorstep?

Anyway, the main characters were likable, and I cared about what happened to them. There was some suspense from the slowly escalating attempts to frighten Torie and attempts to kill Joe. Torie and Joe grew to admire and then care for each other as they spent time together. The Christian element was trying to explain to a child why we trust God even after He lets bad things happen. There was no sex or bad language.


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