A priceless book, hidden in a corpse.
A family secret, handed down through generations.
And a woman with no memory of her past.
Number-one best-selling author Brad Meltzer returns with The House of Secrets
When Hazel Nash was six years old, her father taught her: Mysteries need to be solved. He should know. Hazel’s father is Jack Nash, the host of America’s favorite conspiracy TV show, The House of Secrets.
Even as a child, she loved hearing her dad’s tall tales, especially the one about a leather book belonging to Benedict Arnold that was hidden in a corpse.
Now, years later, Hazel wakes up in the hospital and remembers nothing, not even her own name. She’s told she’s been in a car accident that killed her father and injured her brother. But she can’t remember any of it because of her own traumatic brain injury. Then a man from the FBI shows up, asking questions about her dad – and about his connection to the corpse of a man found with an object stuffed into his chest: a priceless book that belonged to Benedict Arnold.
Back at her house, Hazel finds guns that she doesn’t remember owning. On her forehead she sees scars from fights she can’t recall. Most important, the more Hazel digs, the less she likes the person she seems to have been.
Trying to put together the puzzle pieces of her past and present, Hazel Nash needs to figure out who killed this man – and how the book wound up in his chest. The answer will tell her the truth about her father, what he was really doing for the government – and who Hazel really is.
Mysteries need to be solved. Especially the ones about yourself.
Should come with a warning label… The House of Secrets should come with a warning: If you plan on reading this book in public be prepared to gasp out loud, get big eyes, mouth drop open or exclaim WTF without realizing it, therefore causing people in your vicinity to give you strange or questioning looks. Also be warned that you will try to explain what you just read to those questioning looks and will probably seem more disturbed than you did just by letting a WTF slip out accidentally.Â
The House of Secrets is a fast-paced thriller that kept me on my toes! The House of Secrets is a fast-paced thriller that kept me on my toes!Â
It has a great plot and good character development When she was 6 years old Hazel Nash’s Father told her a story. A story about a man who dies and when the Dr performs the autopsy he finds a bible. A bible with “The Property of Benedict Arnold” inside the cover.Â