There are a lot of things going on in this book perhaps too many to manage with real finesse. And I think, for a debut, it has lots to recommend it, but I also think the story itself – the part that was supposed to be ‘thrilling’ – was just sort of pedestrian. And it’s these secrets – revealed slowly over the course of the novel – that prevent Ellice from making sensible decisions from the the moment she discovers Michael’s body until the end of the book. Secondly, he’s a WASP and she’s Black and their relationship is a secret, one of many secrets Ellice has had to keep over the course of her life. First of all, he’s married and has children. We come to understand that Ellice has a complicated past and Michael is just one of those complications. She “prayed to God for forgiveness, turned off the lights, and quietly closed the office door…”. But what does she do when she discovers Michael’s body? Does she call the cops? Security? An ambulance? No. And this is also the beginning of the issues that kept me from thoroughly enjoying the novel – although I certainly found it easy to read.Įllice is a 50-something, Ivy-league educated lawyer, so clearly not an idiot. Morris’s debut novel All Her Little Secrets begins.
When she arrives though, she finds “a bright crimson spray of blood” and a “star-shaped hole in Michael’s right temple”. When he asks her to meet him at the office early one morning, Ellice doesn’t find the request unusual. Her lover, Michael, is the executive vice president of the same company.
Ellice Littlejohn works in the legal department of Houghton Transportation Company.
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