Author Hank Phillippi Ryan has written a crime novel titled \u201cAll This Could Be Yours\u201d about an author on tour to promote a crime novel titled \u201cAll This Could Be Yours.\u201d As Ryan says in an endnote, it\u2019s very meta.<\/p>\n
The fictional author is Tess Calloway, a woman and mother who quit a well-paying corporate job where she felt \u201cinvisible\u201d in order to pursue her dream of becoming a novelist. The hero of Tess\u2019s book is Annabelle, a woman who defies the limitations society places of women in order to do what she wishes with her \u201cone life.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Tess\u2019s book tour opens, her debut novel is already on The New York Times bestseller list. At each stop, she is greeted by adoring crowds, mostly women who chant \u201cOne life!\u201d and proclaim that Annabelle inspired them to change their own.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, the tour is exhausting. Every day takes Tess to a new city, a different hotel, a fresh crowd of admirers. She has to rely on FaceTime to keep in touch with her husband and two young children, and her vivid imagination tortures her with fears about what could be going wrong at home.<\/p>\n
Before long, however, odd things start happening on the tour. She finds a mysterious locket in a hotel room night stand. At another stop, someone breaks into her room and leaves a pair of earrings. A sheet of paper with a vaguely threatening message is slid under her door. Someone takes her carry-on from an airplane overhead bin.<\/p>\n
Worse, Tess starts getting uncomfortable personal questions about her past at bookstore appearances and on social media \u2014 uncomfortable because she has long harbored a dark secret. It\u2019s one that she fears would destroy her new career and her family if it were ever revealed.<\/p>\n
In Tess, Ryan has created a likeable, compelling, complex character who struggles to come to terms with her past and finds the courage to confront the danger she faces. The story starts slowly, the tension building page by page toward a series of twists that readers are unlikely to see coming.<\/p>\n
Bruce DeSilva, winner of the Mystery Writers of America\u2019s Edgar Award, is the author of the Mulligan crime novels including \u201cThe Dread Line.\u201d<\/p>\n
AP book reviews: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/book-reviews<\/p>\n
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