Name: Confidence
Rating: 3 (3 reviews)

Denise Mina

Confidence

Laura Dobie

She turns slowly to a white marble fireplace topped with a massive painting of St Sebastian shot through with arrows. In a better painting by a better artist he'd be looking heavenward in an ecstasy of faith, but it's not very good and he looks like an exasperated supply teacher.

‘Very expensive, portable things do tend to be cursed, I've noticed.'

And the two incidents were more than twenty years apart, a long time for an individual to hold the same grudge. Even maniacs get bored and move on to other projects.

I could see him as a glowering international drug smuggler and yet here he was, in the world of podcasting with us, like Pablo Escobar volunteering at a local preschool.

On the other hand, said Fin, Bram was not a fit man and murder was probably a prohibitive amount of cardio for him.

Anna and Fin think they’re tracking down a missing woman for their podcast. But this decision takes them, once again, through Europe on a chase with a lot of dangerous criminals, looking for a lost religious treasure.

I like the heist-type stories, and the twist at the end was good. A fun read.

Cheri McElroy

Anna and Fin think they’re tracking down a missing woman for their podcast. But this decision takes them, once again, through Europe on a chase with a lot of dangerous criminals, looking for a lost religious treasure.

I like the heist-type stories, and the twist at the end was good. A fun read.

In this "edge-of-your-seat" thriller and sequel to the Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine book club pick Conviction (The Los Angeles Times), Anna and Fin find themselves on another breathtaking chase across Europe—and another race to save their own lives. Deception. Theft. Murder. All you need is confidence. Anna McDonald has made a terrible mistake. She has forced her blended family to vacation together. The weather is bad, her daughters are bored, and her ex-husband still insufferable. Oh, and Fin Cohen brought his latest girlfriend, too. So when news of a shocking kidnapping breaks, Anna and Fin do the responsible thing. They take off to solve the case. Lisa Lee, a young YouTube star, has vanished after answering the door to what she thought was a pizza delivery. Police suspect her dad or the delivery guy, but in Lisa’s last known video she ventured into an abandoned chateau in France, where she uncovered a priceless artifact. Anna knows they must find this young woman before it’s too late. To do so, they need to track down that treasure, a casket that could hold answers to the greatest questions ever asked. But Anna and Fin might have misunderstood the stakes of the game. Soon, they find themselves mixed up with some very dark characters, on another thrilling chase across Europe—and another race to save their own lives. Praise for the national bestseller Conviction: "One of the most talented, most daring, most humane writers of the past twenty years . . . Conviction is Mina's finest work to date: a dark star of a novel, blazingly intense, up-to-the-minute fresh, and exciting as all hell." ―A.J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window "Endlessly surprising . . . This incredible novel seems to have been written in a white-hot rage."―Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review "Conviction combines all Mina's gifts―for suspense, humor, menace, sentiment―in spectacular fashion."―Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal "A page-turner with depth and soul."―O, the Oprah Magazine

I enjoyed this book, but I felt like as it went on it became hard to follow and ended really abruptly and confusingly. And I’m struggling to see the point of it. I think there’s going to have to be a third to clear some things up and tell us what happened next. 

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