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The Boss

By: James Caine
Narrated by: Haley Taylor, Hillary Huber
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A psychological thriller with a heart-pounding twist

I have my dream job,

With a nightmare boss.

At first, Nicole Barret seemed to be the perfect boss.

I was dead wrong.

It gets worse when I find out my husband knows her all too well. She's his ex-fiancé.

She won’t let me quit without destroying my career and my marriage.

It wasn’t a coincidence that she hired me.

It won’t be a coincidence if I disappear.

The Boss is a psychological thriller filled with twists, suspense and mind-blowing tension, from James Caine, the author of The In-Laws and The Family Cabin.

©2024 James Caine (P)2024 Dreamscape Media Domestic Thrillers Psychological Thriller & Suspense Marriage Boss Exciting Heartfelt
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I probably should have wanted to smack "the boss" but it ended up being both the husband and wife I longed to slap. However, the book held my interest right through the ending.

Good but I Wanted to Smack Someone

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There's a chapter, I believe 26 or 27 when Alice sees Natalie leaving work as she's going to her car that just cuts off and skips to the next chapter.

The motivation of Natalie made little sense and seems over blown considering she was supposedly about to get arrested stealing. On day 1 when Natalie sees the VP get fired, you'd think she'd reach out to her after she became suspicious of Natalie.

Lots of plot holes such as why does Natalie mention Alice's brother in law? How is the husband arrested/jailed for a murder when it should've been clear that the woman was Lee - who would've died a while before he went to Natalie's apartment? How does she move the body to her apartment to throw out the window? The book becomes more implausible as it goes on.

Hit and Miss

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The writing style of the author, the main character, and the performance of the narrators was able to hold my interest, but this story calls for a massive suspension of disbelief in so many different areas. Also, the actual synopsis of the story should never have revealed the connection between the boss and her new hire. That would have been a decent reveal if done correctly. It could have created more tension, suspense, intrigue. Instead, it was instantly clear that the hiring was no coincidence because that connection was revealed before the story even started. Why would you choose to put a huge spoiler in the synopsis???

Spoilers ahead for anyone who has read the book and came to confirm that they're not alone in their frustration with some of the ridiculous plot points. The motivations of the villain made absolutely NO sense. If a woman already believes she's about to be exposed for embezzlement, it makes no sense to hire someone to mess with them and take the chance that you'll further expose yourself. Her energy would have been better spent trying to further cover her crimes, not add to them. And that was a plot point that went NOWHERE. It was ludicrous that after her "death," the truth of what she had been doing was never mentioned again. Surely, if she was that close to being caught, the police would have uncovered it in a murder investigation? It would have been at least cause to lend credibility to the suicide theory. But once she's supposedly murdered, it just disappears from the story as if it didn't exist. And the investigation didn't catch the fact that it wasn't even her body?? Not unless every person on the case from the responding officers, the detectives, and the coroner was completely incompetent. Time of death wouldn't match, the condition of the body certainly wouldn't line up with a fall like that. There would have been very little blood (if any) rigor mortis would have already set in, there would have been mottling on the body indicating that it had been inside if a container and in a certain position for so long... Not only that, but what about the bruise she put on her own arm to send in the text, no one noticed that mark wasn't on the corpse?? Lastly, NO WAY are the police going to open an manhunt for a woman who has already been declared dead and whose alleged killer has already confessed to her murder at the word of the incarcerated man's wife. And for them to never have found her body? They wouldn't have released him on the word of the wife that she happened to stumble on this woman alive, ESPECIALLY when the body never turned up. Clothes with her DNA wouldn't have been enough. And since when did we start doing DNA in this story?? We certainly didn't do it on the literal corpse that was dead for a day before having been thrown off of a balcony to confirm it was even the right one. All of the major plot points of this story fall between unlikely, improbable and impossible.

Empathetic main character, ludicrous plot

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This was the most boring book. The story wasn’t that good. I would not recommend this book.

The Boss

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