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The Lake of Lost Girls
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Whodunnit INDEED!!!
EVERYONE comes under suspicion: the butcher, the baker - oh, no, not the candlestick maker! - but even YOU will be wondering what you were up to on the day that Jessica Fadley disappeared.
Young Lindsey Fadley was the last person to see her sister on that fateful afternoon.
Flash forward 24 years and Lindsey is impatiently waiting for the forensic results on the bodies of several women who had been found at the bottom of the local lake. Her entire life has revolved around her sister's disappearance and her need to dispel the burden of morbid speculation which has clouded her entire life.
Lindsey is guided by a true crime podcast in her attempts to solve the mystery of her sister's disappearance. Did I suspect the actual culprit(s)? Yes, of course. As I said before, everyone comes under suspicion. As the threads in this long-dormant mystery painstakingly unravel, you would be forgiven for beginning to question whether Jessica was ever actually abducted or murdered.
Will the real Jessica Fadley please stand up?
I'm rating this one a 3.8 out of 5 (rounded up to a 4 because GR doesn't allow for fractions.) Parts of this story were loaded with visible red herrings for me and there was a tad too much repetition in the last few chapters, as if to convince the reader - like water dripping on a stone - to accept the final version of the events of that fateful afternoon. Overall great storytelling, but characterization was a tad "canned" or formulaic in some parts.
My thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for an ARC of this thriller in exchange for an honest review.
EVERYONE comes under suspicion: the butcher, the baker - oh, no, not the candlestick maker! - but even YOU will be wondering what you were up to on the day that Jessica Fadley disappeared.
Young Lindsey Fadley was the last person to see her sister on that fateful afternoon.
Flash forward 24 years and Lindsey is impatiently waiting for the forensic results on the bodies of several women who had been found at the bottom of the local lake. Her entire life has revolved around her sister's disappearance and her need to dispel the burden of morbid speculation which has clouded her entire life.
Lindsey is guided by a true crime podcast in her attempts to solve the mystery of her sister's disappearance. Did I suspect the actual culprit(s)? Yes, of course. As I said before, everyone comes under suspicion. As the threads in this long-dormant mystery painstakingly unravel, you would be forgiven for beginning to question whether Jessica was ever actually abducted or murdered.
Will the real Jessica Fadley please stand up?
I'm rating this one a 3.8 out of 5 (rounded up to a 4 because GR doesn't allow for fractions.) Parts of this story were loaded with visible red herrings for me and there was a tad too much repetition in the last few chapters, as if to convince the reader - like water dripping on a stone - to accept the final version of the events of that fateful afternoon. Overall great storytelling, but characterization was a tad "canned" or formulaic in some parts.
My thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for an ARC of this thriller in exchange for an honest review.
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March 17, 2024
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