by Megan Miranda
Publish 16 May 2017 by Simon Schuster
Finished 2 May 2017
The author has given us something even better than her debut, more thrills and mysteries, and NOT written in reverse, thank you very much. The lead characters of Leah and Emma, both hiding secrets from their pasts, are broken young women still learning how to make it in a world that can be cruel and suspicious. They run off from Boston to small-town Pennsylvania to try to start over -- Leah, a former journalist now turned school teacher, and Emma... well, we don't know much about Emma and neither does Leah, just what Emma wants her to believe. Around the time that a young woman gets attacked in this new locale, Emma and her boyfriend both disappear; and Leah and the police try to piece things together with very little to go on. So little, in fact, that one wonders if Emma is real or just a creation of Leah's troubled psyche.
With stalkers lurking in the woods, a dead body, noises beneath the house, and the intelligent musing about it all by Leah, I was easily pulled into this story. I did feel always one step ahead of the action towards the end, but maybe that was intentional as Leah and I together figured out just how things were. It usually bothers me when I can halfway solve the mysteries, but here, not at all.
An entertaining read for which I thank NetGalley and Simon Schuster.
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