Jaw. On. The. Floor. 😲
Rachel Krall is a podcast sensation covering a rape trial in a coastal NC town – the kind of trial that has the town fervently taking sides. As if that weren’t enough, Rachel finds a note on her windshield asking her to look into a decades-old murder. There are more and more notes. Someone is following her. Caught up in the trial, Rachel can’t help but be pulled to the murder. Could they be connected? What is happening in this sleepy little town and what mysteries lurk in the shadows?
I requested what I thought would be an average mystery and received MY FAVORITE BOOK OF THE YEAR (ok, so far). In the #metoo era it’s intriguing and refreshing to see a mystery – a genre that can be often dismissed as “not serious” – be so poignant and dead-on in research and the telling of sexual assault. Wow. This needs to be a movie. Someone call Reese Witherspoon.
The viewpoint is mostly that of Rachel, a famous podcaster of a “guilty or innocent” show, a pastime I will admit I’ve never ventured into. It made for a unique viewpoint – a journalist, but one who operates behind the scenes. One who truly strives to stay impartial.
But the best part of this is the rawness of the whole case. It is dead-on accurate. If you don’t know already you will understand intimately why women don’t report sexual assault, why they don’t follow through when they do report and why so few cases go to trial.
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Genre: Mystery/ContemporaryFaction
Recommend to: Everyone who loves mystery. This is THE ONE we need to talk about.
Not recommended to: if sexual assault/rape issues are too much for you.
Thank you to the author Megan Goldin , St. Martin’s Press, and Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for my always-honest review and for wowing me and rocking my world during quarantine.
