A review by onemorepagecrew
All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris

slow-paced

3.5

All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris was not what I expected going in, it is not a fast-paced legal thriller.  It is a slow-paced mystery that takes place in a legal firm and centers on an attorney, Ellice.  Ellice is a Black woman working in a predominantly white company that has protesters picketing for corporate discrimination, and throughout the book she experiences microaggressions and outright racism in her workplace.  
 
The mystery is centered on a homicide that takes place in her office, ending the life of the man Ellice is having an affair with. As she finds evidence of a company cover-up linked to something larger, she is also trying hard to keep her family life in the past. The two collide and Ellice is at the center of it all. 
 
I really wanted to love this book and at times I really liked it, but I never tipped into loving it.  It was missing the edge of my seat feeling and the pace was slow until about 65% in, then it notched up to barely medium.  There were a few major plot holes and, for an attorney, the way she dealt with the police and their investigation was…. perplexing.  
 
Things I liked were the way the present storyline and past storyline merged, the message that was at the core of this book, and the way each character was unreliable – it added to the mystery.  
 
Content warnings: Racism, Workplace Discrimination, Abortion, Murder, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault 
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