Fool Her Once by Joanna Elm {Book Review}

Fool Her Once is full of twists and turns, past and present, all intertwined to make for an amazing, mind boggling mystery.

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Fool Her Once by Joanna Elm {Book Review}

Some killers are born. Others are made.

As a rookie tabloid reporter, Jenna Sinclair made a tragic mistake when she outed Denny Dennison, the illegitimate son of an executed serial killer. So she hid behind her marriage and motherhood. Now, decades later, betrayed by her husband and resented by her teenage daughter, Jenna decides to resurrect her career—and returns to the city she loves.

When her former lover is brutally assaulted outside Jenna’s NYC apartment building, Jenna suspects that Denny has inherited his father’s psychopath gene and is out for revenge. She knows she must track him down before he can harm his next target, her daughter.

Meanwhile, her estranged husband, Zack, fears that her investigative reporting skills will unearth his own devastating secret he’d kept buried in the past.

From New York City to the remote North Fork of Long Island and the murky waters surrounding it, Jenna rushes to uncover the terrible truth about a psychopath and realizes her own investigation may save or destroy her family.

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Fool Her Once was a twisted, almost sadistic (not in a bad sense) mystery read that kept me on my toes trying to piece this seemingly strange puzzle together before the answer was revealed.

The story brought the past into the present and bounced between then and now to weave a mystery that left your jaw on the floor!

While I was able to figure out the mystery before it was actually told in the story; I had to know more (hello, psychology major here!) My eyes (and mind) could not read what I was reading fast enough! I was absolutely obsessed and held on for every twist and turn that arrived in the storyline.

Fool Her Once is the first book I have ready by Joanna Elm and let me tell you, I need to read more! Fool Her Once was such an interesting and intriguing plot – a fabulous read.

About the Author

Joanna Elm is an author, journalist, blogger, and attorney. Before the publication of her first two suspense novels (Scandal, Tor/Forge 1996); (Delusion, Tor/Forge/1997), she was an investigative journalist on the London Evening News on Fleet Street in the U.K. She also wrote for British magazines like Woman’s Own.

Then, she moved to New York where she worked as a writer/producer for television news and tabloid TV programs like “A Current Affair.” She was also the researcher/writer for WNEW-TV’s Emmy-award-winning documentary “Irish Eyes.” In 1980, she joined the Star as a reporter, eventually becoming the magazine’s news editor and managing editor before moving to Philadelphia as editor of the news/features section of TV Guide.

After completing her first two novels while living in South Florida, (Nelson DeMille described Scandal as “fresh, original and unpredictable”) Joanna returned to New York, enrolled in law school, graduated summa cum laude, passed the NY Bar exam, and worked as a principal law clerk for an appellate division justice in the prestigious First Department. She has been married to her husband Joe for 35 years and has one son.

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