The Stepmother

By: Diana Diamond

Narrated by: Susanna Burney

Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's Summary

When Steven Armstrong tells his children he has fallen in love, he expects them to be happy that his life as a lonely 65-year-old widower is over. Instead, their father's intended - 33-year-old personal trainer Charlene Hendricks - is exactly the kind of woman they fear. Through marriage, she becomes not only the stepmother to these three grown children, but the rival for their father's world-class fortune. 

Suddenly, an attack is made on Charlene's life. All the children are suspect, but which one has the best motive? 

Then a second attack backfires and mistakenly kills Steven, making the stepmother a wealthy heiress. Now, it is the children who accuse her of murdering their father. Only by finding the real killer can she prove her innocence. 

©2005 Diana Diamond (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Right elements but poor execution

Although this book was not boring, it was lacking in the sense that it there was almost zero character-relationship and timeline development–– the events and time passed with no sense of how or when or what events led the characters to all of a sudden be really close or fall in love or hate each other etc. Almost everything unfolded without proper evolution so it was not believable to the point of confusion. It was almost as if the audience wasn't privy to certain things occurring behind the scenes, leaving us puzzled as to how and why things were happening the way they did. There were many instances where I wondered what what could possibly occur next as it frequently seemed like there was so much time left in the book. Overall, the relationships and the timeline of the plot were very disappointingly executed and prevented it from being a decent story.

the story that keeps wrench.

A trip down hours of entertainment and constant new pathways to the fleeing truth. Excellent writing that keeps drawing you into the story. Ending with a double helix of twisted action.