Book Review: These Toxic Things

 

These Toxic Things

A Thriller

by Rachel Howzell Hall

Pub Date 01 Sep 2021 |

 Thomas & Mercer,  Thomas & Mercer

 General Fiction (Adult)  |  Mystery & Thrillers 

I am reviewing a copy of These Toxic Things through Thomas &Mercer and Netgalley:

*Not meant for younger readers, but definitely an enjoyable suspenseful read.

The trinkets belonging to a dead woman soon become pieces to a terrifying puzzle.

Mickie Lambert creates digital scrapbooks for her clients, in order to ensure her clients souvenirs are never forgotten or lost.  After 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 did not only mean a lot to Nadia, they mean a lot to someone else too.  Mickie has been receiving threatening messages to leave Nadia’s past alone.

Mickie becomes driven to solve this mystery.  She wants to find out who once owned these old 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.

I give These Toxic Things Four out of five stars!

Happy Reading!