THE FORCE OF SUCH BEAUTY by Barbara Bourland - CrimeReads 'The Best New Crime Novels Coming Out in July'

CrimeReads | July 6, 2022

The CrimeReads editors select the month’s best new fiction in crime, mystery, and thrillers.

Barbara Bourland, The Force of Such Beauty (Dutton)

I’d describe this one as “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” if it was written from the perspective of Grace Kelly or Lady Di. A former Olympic athlete, body broken from overtraining, meets the handsome heir to a small kingdom and becomes his blushing bride. Soon, her nuptial bliss turns to waking nightmare, as her husband and her mother-in-law conspire to control every dollar in the kingdom and every moment of the new princess’s life.–MO

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