Finished: Beautiful Ugly (Alice Feeney) I've enjoyed many of Feeney's books, and this one was certainly page-turning, but had too shocking a twist for me at the end. Grady Green is a struggling author who is married to investigative reporter, Abby. They'd fallen for each other quickly and have been married for several years and, to Abby, they seem in a rut. She's not sure that Grady even loves her anymore, seemingly loving his books and their characters more. One evening when Abby is late coming home from work, as often happened in her line of work, she gets a call from Grady in her car and he's a bit annoyed that she's not home with him right now when he's expecting a call any minute to let him know if his latest book made it to the New York Times Best Seller list. She apologizes, says she's on her way home with his favorite, fish and chips, and tells him to hang up in case they're trying to call him right now. He does get the call and his book does make it on the list! Grady calls Abby back with the good news and she can hear his voice beaming with happiness. She tells him she's just down the road from the house but then he hears the screeching of tires. Abby tells him that there's a woman laying in the road in front of her that looks like she's been hit by a car. She must go and see if she's ok. Grady begs her not to get out of the car for her own safety, but she tells him she'll leave the phone on but she must go and check on her. Abby never comes back to the phone, and her red overcoat is found washed up on the shore of the beach their neighborhood bluff overlooks. A year later, Grady is down and out. Abby was never found and the mystery hasn't been solved. He hasn't been able to write anything at all, and his agent, Kitty, who was Abby's godmother, is getting worried about him. She calls him in for a meeting and offers him the keys to a cabin on a remote Scottish island where another author, more famous than he, had gone to write his string of successful books. From there on out, the story turns a bit creepy. All the folks on the island are strange...there is no communication with the mainland...there are only 25 residents of the island....they all have walkie talkies to stay in touch with each other...and to make matters worse, Grady keeps thinking he's seeing Abby in her red coat every time he turns around. The story unfolds as we find out the weird but tragic history of the Isle of Amberley, the stories of most of the unusual inhabitants of the island, and finally, what actually happened to Abby! It's a pretty good book, but as I said, I wasn't fond of the twist at the end.