I received a free electronic ARC of this mystery from Netgalley, Jeffery Marshall, and Dog Ear Publishing. Thank you all for sharing your hard work with me. I have read this mystery of my own volition, and this review reflects my honest opinion of this work. I am pleased to recommend Undetected to friends and family. It is a quirky tale, partly southern, that is a fast, compelling read.

Suzy is a well-kept, wealthy older woman setting up house in New York with her latest husband. Dean Perry is aware of the death of Suzy's former husband in the Atlanta area, but he is enchanted with Suzy. His deceased spouse died after a long bout with Alzheimers and dementia - the future looks much brighter now with Suzy by his side. Dean has a couple of grown kids and some grandkids, Suzy has a couple of step-kids, also grown and on their own, and the world is honestly their oyster. There is nothing that can hold them back. Except for the possible murder of her late husband... husbands?

WhIle this novel starts quite well it fizzled halfway through while it plodded along to a disappointing ending, which really didn’t even seem like an ending. More like a pause before starting the next one. Sorry, not my cup of tea.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with the ARC. So this one was a challenge. Mainly because I felt there was a large amount of "telling" vs. actual communication and thoughts between characters. This made me feel nothing for them or care if anything happened to them. The idea was fantastic. Loved the premise for sure. I will read more from this author in the future.

This is a predictable story. I did not like the writing style and found it hard to keep reading.

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy.

Dean Perry has recently married Suzy Perry. The family doesn't know much about her, as she's very secretive about her life before. Dean's son and daughter are becoming troubled and concerned about their father.

Suzy unknowingly lets a few little things drop and Alex, Dean's son, gets that little feeling in his gut that something is seriously wrong. Being a journalist, he listens to his gut ...and then hires a private investigator to look into her past.

What he discovers does not put him at ease.

When it comes to crime fiction, I always look for at least some credibility in the story telling. Sadly, I found none here. The ending was convoluted and I felt the author didn't quite know how to end it .. so it just hangs there. I was hoping for more and it just didn't quite make the cut. It was a great start .. but fizzled.

Many thanks to the author / Dog Ear Publishing / Netgalley for the digital copy of UNDETECTED. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

2 -2.5 stars
Is this the first in a series?? If not, do not read this book! There is utterly no ending. I have never been so conflicted by a book. I would say this rates about 2 to 3 stars.at the very best.
This started off as a 5-star book but I am giving it 2.5 stars just because the beginning was so good yet the end was so beyond tragic. The beginning of the book is utterly absorbing and I was very quickly drawn into the story. This is the first book by this author I have ever read and was loving every page and then it all just fell apart.
The author made some took some bizarre turns with the story; for example, when Suzy went on the run, she uses credit cards that easily could have been traced, she used her best friends name yet another item that any detective worth his salt could have traced. She uses her cell phone yet no cop thinks to ping it? Seriously? How did none of this happen? Why was there literally no ending? I even checked to make sure the book downloaded properly. This book needed at least another 50 pages to wrap up the story. Seriously, I do not recommend.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher and NetGalley. The views given are my own.

: Undetected

Author: Jeffrey Marshall

Genre: thriller

Pages:232

August 6,2019 - all ready out to buy

Netgalley ARC

AUTHOR
Jeffrey Marshall is a retired journalist and the author of three books, including Little Miss Sure Shot, a historical novel about Annie Oakley. He has been published widely in newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times and New Jersey Monthly, and was at various times a reporter, editor, feature writer, columnist and book reviewer.
During his career, Marshall was involved with every medium in journalism except television - newspapers, magazines, radio, newsletters and journals. He was a winner or co-winner of numerous editorial awards for magazine writing and design. He wrote a book about community reinvestment in the banking industry and published a volume of collected poems, River Ice, in 2009. He lives in Scottsdale, AZ, with his wife, Judy, and two dogs, Maggie and Blaze.



UNDETECTED

Suzy Perry, a lovely, accomplished older woman, has married into a new family in Westchester County, NY, after being widowed not long before in Atlanta. Her new husband, Dean Perry, is besotted with her, but his son, Alex, and daughter-in-law Lisa are troubled by how little they know about her. Who is she?

Little by little, clues and tidbits of information persuade Alex that he needs to know more. As the questions pile up, Alex, a journalist, elects to hire a private detective to probe Suzy's past, without informing his father. Over time, it becomes clear that Suzy changed her name when she moved to Atlanta - and that she had been married for many years to a car dealer in Missouri who died suddenly shortly before she left.

Is all this innocent, or something more sinister? Once circumstantial, the evidence becomes more concrete - and then Suzy is on the run.


My thoughts

Rating:5

Black Widow: highly venomous American spider which has a black body with red markings.

2nd meaning:woman who kills her husband or lover, especially one who kills multiple husbands or lovers.

Do we really knew the people in our lives as well as we think we do, after reading this I would say not so much, and after reading this I'm going to be a lot more safer when letting new people in , because after reading this I can definitely say this Don't ever let Suzy (or what ever her new name is ) into your live because you might be welcoming a surprise that you wasn't looking for , in fact run the other way because she's like a praying mantis who killed their mate after getting what she wants all the time thinking she's the one that's been wronged and she's the innocent party. I do have to say that it was the cover that got me to pick up the book and this is the first time I've ever read a thriller where the main character is a black widow , in fact I don't think I've ever read one that has that in it,which made this so different from other thrillers I've read, and it was so easy to get lost into the story . I especially felt sorry for her new husband because he was a lovesick fool .With that said I want to thank Netgalley for letting me read and review it exchange for my honest opinio