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A Single Woman

ost mysteries and thrillers I’ve read lately feature chapters alternating between characters. It makes sense why that’s a popular approach—switching to another point of view after a tense chapter not only makes readers want to keep turning pages, but it also keeps readers wondering whom they should trust. Plus, it allows writers to drop in more clues readers might not get to see if there’s only one POV character. That’s why, when I read two back-to-back mystery novels each featuring a single narrator, they caught my

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