Congrats Nora
on the recent release of
The New Mother!
The New Mother by Nora Murphy
Mystery Thriller, 336 pages
Published May 30, 2023 by Minotaur Books
A relatable and nerve-wracking, sympathetic and bone-chilling story—a fresh new twist on motherhood and murder in suburbia.
Isolated. Lonely. Tired. It's hard being The New Mother. Sometimes it's murder.
Nothing is simple about being a new mom alone in a new house, especially when your baby is collicky. Natalie Fanning loves her son unconditionally, but being a mother was not all she wanted to be.
Enter Paul, the neighbor.
Paul provides the lifeline she needs in what feels like the most desperate of times. When Paul is helping with Oliver, calmed by his reassuring, steady presence, Nat feels like she can finally rest.
But Paul wants something in return. It’s no coincidence that he has befriended Nat—she is the perfect pawn for his own plan. Will Nat wake up in time to see it?
My thoughts about The New Mother ~~
(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first lines.)
First lines—"He had never seen me before, but he knew me inside and out. He'd lived, grown, wriggled inside me for nine months. Here he was. A stranger."
'It wasn't the sort of neighborhood for murder.' That was the tag line in the promos I had seen for this book, and it was also at the beginning of the book. So of course, that line drew me in and made me want to know more.
As Natalie tries to settle in as a new mother with a colicky, demanding baby, the nice stay-at-home father who just lives down the street comes to her rescue and seems to be her lifeline to sanity. Motherhood is hard and to have someone to lean on is a god-send. As she comes to depend on him more and more, things take a turn, and maybe their friendship isn't what she thought it was.
The New Mother was intense as I tried to figure out who was going to die, and how it was going to go down. I kept setting up scenarios for a murder and then I would be wrong. The ending was very satisfying and the last sentence? Wow, just wow! Is she serious?
I received a copy of The New Mother from the publisher via NetGalley and this is my honest opinion.
About the author
Nora Murphy attended law school in Washington, D.C., then worked as a judicial law clerk before transitioning to private practice. A practicing attorney, Nora writes as much as she can, usually long before the sunrise or on her phone while holding her infant son. Nora resides in Maryland with her husband, children, and five rescue pets.
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