These toxic things

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Title:

These toxic things

Author:

Hall, Rachel Howzell author.

ISBN:

9781542027472

9781542027496

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

413 pages ; 22 cm

Abstract:

Mickie Lambert creates "digital scrapbooks" for clients, ensuring that precious souvenirs aren't forgotten or lost. When her latest client Nadia Denham, a curio shop owner, dies from an apparent suicide, Mickie honors the old woman's last wish and begins curating her peculiar objets d'art. A music box, a hair clip, a keychain-twelve mementos in all that must have meant so much to Nadia who collected them on her flea market scavenges across the country. They mean a lot to someone else, too. Mickie has been getting threatening messages from a long-dormant serial killer to leave Nadia's past alone.

Subject Term:

Souvenirs (Keepsakes) -- Fiction.

Serial murders -- Fiction.

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Summary

A dead woman's cherished trinkets become pieces to a terrifying puzzle.

Mickie Lambert creates "digital scrapbooks" for clients, ensuring that precious souvenirs aren't forgotten or lost. When her latest client, Nadia Denham, a curio shop owner, dies from an apparent suicide, Mickie honors the old woman's last wish and begins curating her peculiar objets d'art. A music box, a hair clip, a key chain--twelve mementos in all that must have meant so much to Nadia, who collected them on her flea market scavenges across the country.

But these tokens mean a lot to someone else, too. Mickie has been receiving threatening messages to leave Nadia's past alone.

It's becoming a mystery Mickie is driven to solve. Who once owned these odd treasures? How did Nadia really come to possess them? Discovering the truth means crossing paths with a long-dormant serial killer and navigating the secrets of a sinister past. One that might, Mickie fears, be inescapably entwined with her own.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Digital archaeologist Michaela Lambert, the narrator of this exceptional thriller from bestseller Hall (And Now She's Gone) has scheduled a meeting with Nadia Denham, the owner of an eclectic shop in a seedy Santa Barbara, Calif., shopping mall, who's in the early stages of Alzheimer's. Nadia has paid $5,000 to Michaela's company, Memory Bank, for the Mega-Memory Package, a holographic "next-generation digital scrapbook that will recall those special places she's visited as well as souvenirs, pictures, and objets d'art that she's acquired." The two hit it off, and an appointment to begin the project is set for later that evening. When Michaela arrives at the shop, she finds that Nadia dead, apparently a suicide. As Memory Bank has already cashed Nadia's check, Michaela decides to proceed with the project, having all the materials she needs and despite the strenuous objections of Nadia's shop manager. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose, Michaela is sure she's being stalked, and disturbing revelations about her own life are surfacing as she delves into her mother's past in order to create a digital scrapbook. This cleverly plotted, surprise-filled novel offers well-drawn and original characters, lively dialogue, and a refreshing take on the serial killer theme. Hall continues to impress. Agent: Jill Marsal, Marsal Lyon Literary. (Aug.)