The Secret Keeper

I just recently finished 'The Secret Keeper' by Kate Morton and it was so amazingly good. When Laurel is 16 years old and playing hide and seek with her siblings, she witnesses her mother kill a man who has come to their little farm in England, from her hiding spot. She has no idea what this man could have said or done to bring her mother to such drastic anger and afterwards the whole thing is kind of hushed up and rarely spoken of again. However, years later, when her mother is getting closer and closer to her death bed, Laurel is determined to discover the truth about both her mother's and the man she killed's past. She is determined that the memory of her mother not be tainted by that terrible day. This novel is about the journey Laurel goes on to unravel her mother's history that she never knew she had.

The reason I liked this novel so much is that it is highly unpredictable. It literally kept me guessing until the very end, and the resolution took me completely by surprise. A definite page turner that keeps you on your toes and dying to know the secret as much as Laurel does. A very good mystery indeed!