My review: 4.25⭐
Gripping from the beginning to the chilling end. Just when I think I am reading too many thrillers in a row and it’ll be predictable ~ WHAM I get totally blindsided ~ I did not see that twist coming.
When Natalie was 9 years old, Jenny, a popular 14 year old girl, was found brutally murdered on her family’s farm. Local trailer park 15 year old girl, Chrissy, confesses to her murder. Now, some 30 years or so later, Chrissy is out on parole and folks from the small town are not happy one bit.
Natalie has always wanted to be a published author, even has a degree, but she was never successful and is making ends meet by working at K-Mart. On a whim, she reaches out to Chrissy to try to figure out why she so easily confessed all those years ago in hopes of writing her story.
As the pages turn more information is slowly, but not annoyingly so, revealed of what really happened that night.
For some reason, maybe because we first meet Natalie when she is 9, she always seemed somewhat immature to me, even when she’s in her 40’s. Perhaps it was because she was running outside in the middle of night because she heard a noise. What single lady would do that when living on a remote farm?
Fast paced with tons of action jammed packed in this quick read. Happy to have found a new author to devour again and again.
TW ~ Suicide, brutal teenage murder, and I did not care for one part that joked about child molestation.
*Thanks to Netgalley, Harper 360 and Carissa Ann Lynch for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
Book blurb: Re~release date ~ April 26, 2022
A gripping new page-turning thriller from the USA Today bestseller!
When bad girls lie, good girls die
A young girl found dead in a neighbor’s field.
A fourteen-year-old who confesses.
Just a child herself, could Chrissy Cornwall really be a cold-blooded killer?
Years later, the murderer is getting out and Natalie Bryers, unable to forget the night of Jenny’s murder, still has questions.
Did Chrissy lie then or is she lying now? Did she really kill Jenny? And if so, will she kill again?
