by Allie Reynolds ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 19, 2022
An exhilarating, adrenaline-filled tale of surfing and rock scrambling.
The author of Shiver (2021) moves from the mountains to the beach as a passionate surfer finds herself caught in a deadly adventure.
As this psychological thriller opens, sports therapist Kenna Ward flies into Sydney from her home in England, determined to rescue her best friend, Mikki, from her new fiance, Jack: Kenna hasn’t met Jack, but from what she’s gathered long-distance from Mikki, she's convinced that he's overly controlling and possibly abusive. Her concern is only to be expected—after all, Mikki and Kenna’s friendship dates back to their early schooldays when they were both surf-mad and shared adventures together, and Mikki's engagement to Jack was awfully sudden. But Kenna’s plans to investigate Jack take an unexpected turn when he and Mikki whisk her off to their secret hideaway, a remote beach in a semiabandoned national park, where they hang out with a motley crew of buddies known as the Tribe. Victor, Ryan, Clemente, and Sky all hail from various spots across the globe, and each one totes emotional baggage, whether it’s ongoing PTSD from a surfing wipeout or struggles with opiate addiction after a damaging accident. Together, as a team (“Fear is fuel….Panic is lethal!” is their motto), they spend their days surfing and egging each other on with trust exercises and supercompetitive tasks, testing their physical and mental boundaries in the ocean and on the nearby cliff and rocks. But not all is well in this surfers’ paradise, a no-holds-barred tropical pleasure spot despite the mosquitoes, ants, jellyfish, bats, and snakes. Kenna’s got her own challenge to overcome—she lost someone close to her two years earlier and hasn’t quite recovered. And then there’s the sinister undercurrent of a plot around missing backpackers. Who, you wonder, will manage to survive?
An exhilarating, adrenaline-filled tale of surfing and rock scrambling.Pub Date: July 19, 2022
ISBN: 978-0-593-18787-6
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Putnam
Review Posted Online: May 10, 2022
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 2022
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by Jeneva Rose ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 30, 2024
Answers are hard to come by in this twisting tale designed to trick and delight.
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Three siblings on very different paths learn that their family home may be haunted by secrets.
Eldest daughter Beth is alone with her fading mother as she takes her final breath and says something about Beth’s long-departed brother and sister, who may not have disappeared forever. Beth is still reeling from the loss of her mother when her estranged siblings show up. Michael, the youngest, hasn’t been home since their father’s disappearance seven years ago. In the meantime, he’s outgrown his siblings, trading his share of the family troubles for a high-paying job in San Jose. Nicole, the middle child, has been overpowered by addiction and prioritized tuning out reality over any sense of responsibility, much to Beth’s disgust. Though their mother’s death marks an ending for the family, it’s also a beginning, as the three siblings realize when they find a disturbing videotape among their parents’ belongings. The video, from 1999, sheds suspicion on their father’s disappearance, linking it to a long-unsolved neighborhood mystery. Was it just a series of unfortunate circumstances that broke the family apart, or does something more sinister underlie the sadness they’ve all found in life? In chapters that rotate among the family’s first-person narratives, the siblings take turns digging up stories and secrets in their search for solace.
Answers are hard to come by in this twisting tale designed to trick and delight.Pub Date: April 30, 2024
ISBN: 9798212182843
Page Count: 270
Publisher: Blackstone
Review Posted Online: Feb. 3, 2024
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 2024
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by Riley Sager ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 21, 2022
A weird, wild ride.
Celebrity scandal and a haunted lake drive the narrative in this bestselling author’s latest serving of subtly ironic suspense.
Sager’s debut, Final Girls (2017), was fun and beautifully crafted. His most recent novels—Home Before Dark (2020) and Survive the Night (2021) —have been fun and a bit rickety. His new novel fits that mold. Narrator Casey Fletcher grew up watching her mother dazzle audiences, and then she became an actor herself. While she never achieves the “America’s sweetheart” status her mother enjoyed, Casey makes a career out of bit parts in movies and on TV and meatier parts onstage. Then the death of her husband sends her into an alcoholic spiral that ends with her getting fired from a Broadway play. When paparazzi document her substance abuse, her mother exiles her to the family retreat in Vermont. Casey has a dry, droll perspective that persists until circumstances overwhelm her, and if you’re getting a Carrie Fisher vibe from Casey Fletcher, that is almost certainly not an accident. Once in Vermont, she passes the time drinking bourbon and watching the former supermodel and the tech mogul who live across the lake through a pair of binoculars. Casey befriends Katherine Royce after rescuing her when she almost drowns and soon concludes that all is not well in Katherine and Tom’s marriage. Then Katherine disappears….It would be unfair to say too much about what happens next, but creepy coincidences start piling up, and eventually, Casey has to face the possibility that maybe some of the eerie legends about Lake Greene might have some truth to them. Sager certainly delivers a lot of twists, and he ventures into what is, for him, new territory. Are there some things that don’t quite add up at the end? Maybe, but asking that question does nothing but spoil a highly entertaining read.
A weird, wild ride.Pub Date: June 21, 2022
ISBN: 978-0-593-18319-9
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Dutton
Review Posted Online: March 29, 2022
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 15, 2022
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