My only complaint about this book is that it's the author's first and, therefore, currently only - I was hoping to dive into another immediately.

Thank you to Macmillan for the ARC copy of this novel.
I did download a copy due to a travel issue, so thank you to NetGalley and Edelweiss as well.
#TakeMeApart
If you like B.A. Paris and Liv Constantine mystery reads then Take Me Apart will peak your interest. It is an adult mystery that has an unreliable narrator, who isn't really sure what she is getting into when so goes to take care of a famed photographer's possessions. It is a mystery that unfolds slowly with a heavy tension. I loved this one immensely that author felt like she'd been doing this forever and it's a debut! I look forward to more of her work.

Sara Sligar's TAKE ME APART, shines a powerful light on art, fame, motherhood and mental illness. Kate has run from the bridges she left in flames in New York to her aunt and uncle's house in Callinas, California. Although she is a journalist by trade, Kate is hired as the archivist for the photographs and papers of the late, great Miranda Brand, Callinas' most notorious resident. Miranda was a star in the art world when she gave birth to her son, Theo. the post-partum depression she suffered after the birth changed her forever. Kate has had her own experience with mental illness and as she delved into Miranda's personal life, she becomes obsessed with proving that Miranda did not commit suicide, as the coroner thought, but was murdered. But by whom? TAKE ME APART thoroughly illustrates what women sacirfice to be taken seriously and they way they are frequently suppressed or controlled by now. But TAKE ME APART is hardly a feminist anthem dressed up as a novel; it is literary fiction at its finest. Beautifully written with realistic characters and a plot that pulls the reader in, TAKE ME APART is a fabulous read and one to share with others!