Book Review: Her Mother’s Secrets

Posted: June 20, 2025 | Author: kayelynnebooth | Filed under: Book Review, Books, Fiction, Mystery, Review, Short Fiction, Stories | Tags: Book Reveiw, Her Mother's Secrets, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, mystery, Short Fiction, Writing to be Read |10 Comments

About Her Mother’s Secrets

When tragedy took everything from Violet, she left home and never looked back. Until now. Her mother’s funeral.

Violet hopes she can settle her mother’s affairs and quietly return to the life she built after that day. Until she sees him. Skeeter Johnson. The boy who shot her in the face.

In a moment, her past returns to haunt her. A past she thought she left behind. A past, she comes to discover, full of her mother’s secrets.

Purchase Link: https://www.amazon.com/Mothers-Secrets-Kristine-Kathryn-Rusch-ebook/dp/B004BDOWMY/

My Review of Her Mother’s Secrets

I received a free digital copy of Her Mother’s Secrets from the WMG Books newsletter. All opinions stated here are my own.

This short story, Her Mother’s Secrets, by best selling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is a mystery of the mind. When Violet inherits her mother’s house, she inherits her mother’s secrets, as well. But those secrets may be the key to the missing parts of Violet’s life, the parts she lost during and after the ‘incident’ that changed her life forever.

Her Mother’s Secrets is a different type of mystery that delves into the tricks one’s mind can play. A delightful tale which can be read in a single sitting. I give it five quills.

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