When I saw 'A Familiar Sight', I remembered that I'd enjoyed an earlier First Read by Brianna Labuskes, ' Her Final Words' and decided to try another.

My first mistake was in checking the books on offer for free under Amazon's 'First Reads' scheme. The plan did not include spending the weekend completely under the spell of a book I didn't know anything about a day earlier. Redlined: A Novel of Boston by Richard W.I like to plan my reading and read what I plan. When not working, she can be found getting wrapped around the fingers of her two nieces, traveling, hiking, kayaking, and exploring the city’s best brunch options.Īmazon Author Page | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads Her historical romance novel, One Step Behind, was released by Entangled Publishing.

She lives in Washington, D.C., working for media organizations that cover the minutia of Capitol Hill and the White House.īrianna is an Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of psychological thrillers.

For the past eight years, she has worked as an editor at both small-town papers and national media organizations such as Politico and Kaiser Health News, covering politics and policy. If Viola is a scapegoat, then who really did it? And what are they hiding? To find the truth, Gretchen must enter a void that is not only dark and cold-blooded, but also frighteningly familiar.īuy the Book:, Barnes & Noble, Audibleīorn in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Brianna Labuskes graduated from Penn State University with a degree in journalism. But Gretchen might be seeing something in Viola no one else does: herself. Amid stories of childhood horrors and Viola’s cruel manipulations, the bad seed has already been found guilty by a rapt public. Remorseless teenager Viola Kent is accused of killing her mother. When a high-profile new case lands on Shaughnessy’s desk, it seems open and shut. Shaughnessy still thinks Gretchen got away with murder. She’s helped solve enough prominent cases for detective Patrick Shaughnessy that her own history is often overlooked: Gretchen is an admitted sociopath once suspected of killing her aunt. Gretchen White is a specialist in antisocial personality disorders and violent crimes. A shocking murder carries echoes of the past for a psychologist in a startling novel of suspense by a Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author.

A Familiar Sight by Brianna Labuskes