Review: Watch the Girls by Jennifer Wolfe

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 533 KB
• Print Length: 400 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; 1 edition (July 10 2018)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0776RT1C7

Book Description

I've been watched all my life. I'm used to being stared at. Observed. Followed.

Fame and obsession collide in this darkly twisted novel from an incredible new voice in suspense.

SOMEONE IS WATCHING
Washed up teen star Liv Hendricks quit acting after her beloved younger sister inexplicably disappeared following a Hollywood party gone wrong. Liv barely escaped with her life, and her sister was never heard from again. But all this time, someone's been waiting patiently to finish what was started...

FOUR MISSING GIRLS
Now fifteen years later, broke and desperate, Liv is forced to return to the spotlight. She crowdfunds a webseries in which she'll pose as a real-life private detective--a nod to the show she starred on as a teen. When a mysterious donor challenges her to investigate a series of disappearances outside a town made famous by the horror movies filmed there, Liv has no choice but to accept.

FOLLOW THE WHITE WOLF
Liv is given a cryptic first clue: Follow the white wolf. And now a darker game is about to begin. Through social media, someone is leaving breadcrumbs to follow. As Liv makes increasingly disturbing discoveries, her show explodes in popularity. A rapt internet audience is eager to watch it all--perhaps even at the cost of Liv's own life...

Filled with provocative twists and turns as the line between plot and reality blurs in this inventive tour-de-force from breakout writer Jennifer Wolfe.

About the Author

YA author Jennifer Wolfe (as Jennifer Bosworth) makes her adult debut with a devastating novel.

Jennifer Bosworth lives in Los Angeles, California. She is the author of the young adult novel Struck and is the writer half of a writer/director team with her husband, Ryan Bosworth.

My Review

Watch the Girls is the debut novel by author Jennifer Wolfe. Very entertaining book....I am looking forward to more from Wolfe.

This is a really fun read....well there are the murders...but it is fun. There is reality tv and all the craziness that goes with it. What is really going on in creepy little town Stone's Throw? Liv, a former tv reality star, needs money after being fired from her latest show. She crowdfunds a webseries and is hired by a mysterious movie director (think David Lynch) to solve the mystery of the Dark Road in Stone's Throw. Add a film festival and interesting townspeople and you have twists and turns galore. Fun read that was hard to put down!

Highly recommend Watch the Girls.

Review: Under a Dark Sky by Lori Rader-Day

• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow (Aug. 7 2018)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0062846140
• ISBN-13: 978-0062846143

Book Description

“Fans of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None will be riveted by Rader-Day’s latest psychological thriller, which makes you question who you really know and trust and whether you should be afraid of the dark.”—Library Journal, Starred Review"A brilliant concept, brilliantly told!" --Jeffery Deaver, New York Times Bestselling Author

Only in the dark can she find the truth . . .

Since her husband died, Eden Wallace's life has diminished down to a tiny pinprick, like a far-off star in the night sky. She doesn't work, has given up on her love of photography, and is so plagued by night terrors that she can't sleep without the lights on. Everyone, including her family, has grown weary of her grief. So when she finds paperwork in her husband's effects indicating that he reserved a week at a dark sky park, she goes. She's ready to shed her fear and return to the living, even if it means facing her paralyzing phobia of the dark.

But when she arrives at the park, the guest suite she thought was a private retreat is teeming with a group of twenty-somethings, all stuck in the orbit of their old college friendships. Horrified that her get-away has been taken over, Eden decides to head home the next day. But then a scream wakes the house in the middle of the night. One of the friends has been murdered. Now everyone—including Eden—is a suspect.

Everyone is keeping secrets, but only one is a murderer. As mishaps continue to befall the group, Eden must make sense of the chaos and lies to evade a ruthless killer—and she'll have to do it before dark falls…


About the Author


LORI RADER-DAY, author of Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died, The Black Hour, and Little Pretty Things, is the recipient of the 2016 Mary Higgins Clark Award and the 2015 Anthony Award for Best First Novel. Lori’s short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Time Out Chicago, Good Housekeeping, and others. She lives in Chicago, where she is the co-chair of the mystery reader conference Murder and Mayhem in Chicago. Visit her at LoriRaderDay.com.

My Review

Under a Dark Sky is the second book of Lori Rader Day's that I have read. I have really enjoyed both books.

A dark sky park in Michigan is the setting for the book. I had never heard of a dark sky park before...have you? So great new setting! People go to dark sky parks to see the sky. Living in Canada and having plenty of dark skies, I did not know there was such a thing. Now I do!

Fascinating story about a woman who finds a reservation to a hotel she has never heard of among her deceased husband's belongings. She believes he prebooked it for their anniversary. What she finds is a rented house full of people she does not know. And then one of them dies....

Eden seems to be living in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. But what Eden really finds out is a lot about herself, her marriage and her future.

Great storytelling! Loved this book!

Highly recommend Under a Dark Sky.

Review: The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 1792 KB
• Print Length: 384 pages
• Publisher: Dutton (July 3 2018)
• Sold by: Penguin Group USA
• Language: English
• ASIN: B076GNTWQM

Book Description

Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their tiny cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. The games ended when Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin in the dead of night. The last she--or anyone--saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips.

Now a rising star in the New York art scene, Emma turns her past into paintings--massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches that cover ghostly shapes in white dresses. The paintings catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the socialite and wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale. When Francesca implores her to return to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor, Emma sees an opportunity to try to find out what really happened to her friends.

Yet it's immediately clear that all is not right at Camp Nightingale. Already haunted by memories from fifteen years ago, Emma discovers a security camera pointed directly at her cabin, mounting mistrust from Francesca and, most disturbing of all, cryptic clues Vivian left behind about the camp's twisted origins. As she digs deeper, Emma finds herself sorting through lies from the past while facing threats from both man and nature in the present.

And the closer she gets to the truth about Camp Nightingale, the more she realizes it may come at a deadly price.

About the Author

Riley Sager is the pseudonym of a former journalist, editor and graphic designer who previously published mysteries under his real name.

Now a full-time author, Riley's first thriller, FINAL GIRLS, became a national and international bestseller and was called "the first great thriller of 2017" by Stephen King. Translation rights have been sold in more than two dozen countries and a film version is being developed by Universal Pictures.

Riley's next book, THE LAST TIME I LIED, will be published in July. It was inspired by the classic novel and film "Picnic at Hanging Rock" and one horrible week Riley spent at summer camp when he was ten.

A native of Pennsylvania, Riley now lives in Princeton, New Jersey. When he's not working on his next novel, he enjoys reading, cooking and going to the movies as much as possible. His favorite film is "Rear Window." Or maybe "Jaws." But probably, if he's being honest, "Mary Poppins."

Website: www.rileysagerbooks.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/rileysagerbooks
Twitter: @Riley_Sager.

My Review


The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager is one of the best books I have read all year.

I have to admit that I was completely in the dark until the end. I could not put this book down. I needed to know what was going to happen next. Now I need to read Riley Sager's first book!

Most taking place at an exclusive summer camp in upstate New York, both 15 years ago and in the present day. Emma Davis was a camper 15 years ago and now she is back as an art instructor. She is hoping to get closure about the events 15 years ago when 3 campers disappeared. Instead of closure, she is beginning to think she is losing her mind.

15 years ago, Vivian ruled their cabin of 4. And now she still is, as Emma searches for clues as to what happened to the girls 15 years ago. Then 3 more girls disappear....

Such a lovely twisty book. Highly highly recommend The Last Time I Lied.

Review: The Disappearing by Lori Roy

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 1493 KB
• Print Length: 352 pages
• Publisher: Dutton (July 17 2018)
• Sold by: Penguin Group USA
• Language: English
• ASIN: B076NRLQ5L

Book Description

Two-time Edgar Award-winning author Lori Roy spins a twisted, atmospheric tale about a small Southern town where girls disappear and boys run away.

When Lane Fielding fled her isolated Florida hometown after high school for the anonymity of New York City, she swore she'd never return. But twenty years later, newly divorced and with two daughters in tow, she finds herself tending bar at the local dive and living with her parents on the historic Fielding Plantation. Here, the past haunts her and the sinister crimes of her father--the former director of an infamous boys' school--make her as unwelcome in town as she was the day she left.

Ostracized by the people she was taught to trust, Lane's unsteady truce with the town is rattled when her older daughter suddenly vanishes. Ten days earlier, a college student went missing, and the two disappearances at first ignite fears that a serial killer who once preyed upon the town has returned. But when Lane's younger daughter admits to having made a new and unseemly friend, a desperate Lane attacks her hometown's facade to discover whether her daughter's disappearance is payback for her father's crimes--or for her own.

With reporters descending upon the town, police combing through the swamp, and events taking increasingly disturbing turns, Lane fears she faces too many enemies and too little time to bring her daughter safely home. Powerful and heart-pounding, The Disappearing questions the endurance of family bonds, the dangers of dark rumors and small town gossip, and how sometimes home is the scariest place of all.




About the Author


Lori Roy's debut novel, BENT ROAD, was awarded the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American Author. Her work has been twice named a New York Times Notable Crime Book and included on various best of lists and summer reading lists. UNTIL SHE COMES HOME was a New York Times Editors' Choice and a Finalist for the Edgar Allen Poe award for Best Novel. LET ME DIE IN HIS FOOTSTEPS was included among the top fiction of 2015 by Books-A-Million and named one of the best 15 mystery novels of 2015 by Oline Cogdill. LET ME DIE IN HIS FOOTSTEPS also received the 2016 Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Novel, making Lori the first woman to receive an Edgar Award for both Best First Novel and Best Novel, and she is the third person to have done so. Her most recent work, THE DISAPPEARING, will hit shelves July 17, 2018.



My Review

The Disappearing by Lori Roy is the first book of Roy's that I have read and I am a fan! It was a terrific book.

Lane Fielding is back in her home town in Florida after being away 20 years. She has returned with her daughters after a divorce. She fled because of her family's history in town. Her family owns the Fielding Planation and her father had run the boy's reform school next door. There is massive baggage from that but when one of Lane's daughter's goes missing, old wounds surface.

A college student who had been working at the planation house goes missing then Lane's daughter.  A local resident is found dead and the town is in a panic. What is causing the girls to disappear?

I loved the twists in this book. Lori Roy is a fantastic writer. Well done!

Highly recommend The Disappearing by Lori Roy.