A Book Everyone Should Read

I don't read often. The last book I willingly read was The Listening Walls by Margaret Miller before summer break. In this book, two best friends, Amy and Wilma, go off to Mexico on a vacation. Amy has always been the quiet one who aims to please, while Wilma is, loud, sometimes depressed, and often drunk. When Wilma buys an expensive silver box with Amy's husband's initials on it, the two of them have a fight over what that implies, then drink way too much tequila. After they go back up to the room, Wilma falls off the balcony and dies. While plenty of people on the busy street saw her land, no one saw or heard what happened in the hotel room except Amy and Consuela, the maid who often rests in the broom closet while listening to the guests through the thin hotel walls.

After Amy's husband, Rupert, brings her home from Mexico, he calls her overly-protective brother, Gill, and tells him that Amy decided to go away for awhile and wouldn't tell anyone where she was going. Gill doesn't really buy this, and when Rupert starts acting nervous, Gill hires a private detective to look into Amy's disappearance.

It turns out that Amy is alright. Amy thinks that she killed Wilma because Consuela told her that she drank too much tequila and pushed Wilma off the balcony. Rupert knows that Consuela killed Wilma, so Rupert, Gill, Amy, and Rupert's secretary team up to make Consuela confess. They eventually do and she was taken to jail. Once everyone arrives to the U.S. Amy tells Gill to keep a secret. In order to find out what she told him read The Listening Walls.

I like the book because it has a lot of suspense. It kept me reading for more.