Yep, that sent a shiver down my spine because don’t all women, in some corner of their minds and at some time, think this? Would anyone miss them, if they were victims of a killer? In a way, they could be any woman walking alone in the late evening on her way home, or alone in her house, or just alone at a time when no one would witness what occurred. That is part of the fear factor of the book as, at times, both Viv and Carly think how horribly easy it is for someone to disappear, to vanish, to be there one minute and dead soon after. Fell has an awful lot of people who were murdered, young women specifically. I had to laugh as modern Carly compares Fell, NY to Cabot Cove – the fictional town in “Murder She Wrote” which has one of the highest per capita murder rates in fiction. Hmmm, what to say so as not to give away spoilers. And while one thing in the plot seemed a little too convenient and happened just when it was needed, the atmosphere and spookiness were top notch. But whoa and damn, there was stuff at the end that I didn’t expect as I tore through to the satisfying ending. I read and pondered and thought and believed I’d figured out what would happen before changing my mind as more clues were revealed. Well, you’ve done it again – produced a book that kept me glued to my chair (or unmoving in bed as I read through to the middle right before going to sleep, jumping at noises outside my house and contemplating leaving a light on). And she soon finds herself ensnared in the same mysteries that claimed her aunt. She decides to move to Fell and visit the motel, where she quickly learns that nothing has changed since 1982.

Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv, who mysteriously disappeared from the Sun Down before she was born. But something isn’t right at the motel, something haunting and scary. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. Something hasn’t been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.

The sun down motel book review