The Unraveling of Julia by Lisa Scottoline begins on a dark street as Julia and her husband walk home after a late dinner. Julia feels a premonition just as a man leaps from the darkness and stabs her husband to death. Julia soon learns that she’s inherited a large amount of money and a Tuscan estate. She wonders if it might be tied to her birth family of which she knows nothing. She stays at the crumbling estate where strange, horror-filled images tied to her possibly being related to a famous Renaissance duchess interrupt her sleep and people follow her when she leaves the villa. Escaping her follower, she meets and falls for a kind Italian librarian who helps her research who she is. The amount of terrible things that happen to Julia and her beau along with Julia’s overdone nightmares make for a suspense novel that doesn’t know if it’s horror or a thriller. Too many unexplored bad guys, motives, and creepy scenes mar this one.

Julia's husband is murdered on the street in front of her and
as she struggles with an inability to go outside and restart her life,
she discovers that she has inherited great wealth and a villa in Tuscany.
So she goes off to find what the inheritance is all about from a person she has never heard of
before in her life.
The story has a wonderfully intriguing beginning but the supernatural overtones take
it down a path that rapidly loses appeal.
If you follow horoscopes and/or have an affinity for the occult, I am sure you will be very happy
with the turns the story takes.
By the time explanations start sorting the plot line out, interest has waned considerably.
Good character developments and the suspense, aside from the things that go bang in the
night, was good.
Really like Scottoline's previous work: this is the first so-so for me.

Another terrific novel from Lisa! Enjoyed it thoroughly.. sure to be a bestseller. Not my favorite of her myriad of mysteries, but clever and fast paced. However, it lacked credibility. A mystery to be believed has to meet a standard of believability. This plot was a bit far fetched. Nevertheless, it was easy to read and I would recommend it.

Thank you NetGalley and Grand Central Publishing for the eARC.
I'm not into astrology or the supernatural and although I felt for Julia at first after her husband's murder, the scenes with the hallucinations were boring to me, so I ended up skipping through them. The descriptions of the Tuscan surroundings were interesting and so were the parts about Catarina Sforza. But other than that I ended up rushing through the read without much enjoyment.

Having read and enjoyed ALL of Ms. Scottoline’s novels, I always look forward to a new endeavor. Although I can empathize with Julia, I just wanted to smack her and tell her to get on with her life after the murder of her husband (not a spoiler since it happens in the first few pages.) The story is somewhat interesting in connection with a bit of good luck which comes her way with a trip to Tuscany and a search for her birth mother. I am also not a fan of astrology and the supernatural which is prevalent throughout the book. This is not one of her better works and only made me yearn for Bennie Rosato and her Philadelphia law firm.
I thank NetGalley and Grand Central Publishing for the opportunity to read and review this novel prior to its publication.

The Unraveling of Julia is magnificola and a fantastica novel by Lisa Scottoline that invades your curiosity from the beginning and never releases you to the final epilogue. I was mesmerized and quite taken by the unraveling of the various plots within that are so entwined. A planned trip to Italy this summer heightens my curiosity of the country and places this novel describes and reminds me that Lisa is always one of my favorite authors.
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I really enjoyed this read. I loved the supernatural and historical elements of the storyline, but I was not as big of a fan of the real estate conspiracy theory plotline.

I was addicted to this suspenseful novel immediately. The writing was so intriguing from the first page forward. I enjoyed the characters and how Scottoline told the story. Can't wait to chat about it with others. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

This talented author has written a page turner. Secrets and red herrings kept me guessing. This is a story within a story…the past meets the present…realistic characters kept the story moving quickly. Just when I thought I was settled in for a tale of suspense, more suspense was added…it kept getting more frightening. Would the protagonist survive? What really happened to Michael? Was the woman who left her an inheritance related? Was this main character adopted or stolen? Questions…enjoy unraveling this mystery. Thanks Netgalley.

This was a DNF for me. It was my first Scottoline book and I found the writing to be very basic and simplistic. Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to try it.

Do you read your horoscope every day? Julia does and Julia is convinced that her horoscope is very real and if she had read it then maybe her husband might not have been murdered. Julia inherit a villa in Italy and doesn’t understand why because she’s adopted and knows nothing about her birth family. However, based on her horoscope, she goes to Italy to try and find out where she came from. This one took some twists and turns that I didn’t expect and I enjoyed reading it.

This book desperately needed a stronger editor. One character makes an appearance and then just disappears. I can suspend disbelief for a while, but this one asks for too much of that. I felt as though threads needed finishing, so the author finished them but didn't finish them in the ways that might be expected or ways that work well, even. I have read better from Lisa Scottolini and I'm sure she'll publish better books in the future. There are many books that do suspense better than this one, I'd give this one a skip.

I was given this book by NetGalley for an honest review-
This was a great book! Julia’s adopted parents and husband have both been murdered. What is scary is her horoscope predicted it,
Julia receives a letter saying she has inherited Tuscan Villa. Who would have left her this? She knows no one by this name. She goes there to find out answers but someone does not want her there. Can she survive to find out who left her this and why? You won’t want to miss this book!

This book held my interest from beginning to end. Enjoyed reading about country of Italy. Felt like I was there. Suspenseful at times. Hard to put down at times. Again author did not disappoint

It’s been a few days and I must admit I’m having a hard time eating this book. Nothing is as it seems at the beginning-mor in the middle. You might suspect what real and what is not. I’d categorize it as a great beach read. I thought the end was wrapped up a little too neatly at the end.