Wowza! Another book from amazing Simone St. So I'm going to chalk this up to the author not being for me and part ways. I read The Sun Down Motel all the way through and felt very much humdrum about it too. In fact, I fell asleep twice reading it so far, which is my bar for moving on. It's supposed to be a ghost story, yet I don't feel any chills or creepy vibes. I always prefer writing to be content-dense, but this is very much the opposite. Instead, it comes across as very predictable and fluffed up to me.
The writing style feels formulaic, with lots of mundane dialogue and descriptions, all to give atmosphere, but I don't feel it. There's something about the combination of the writing and the story that just doesn't grab me. Then I come along, and of course, I'm an outlier. By all accounts, everyone loves it and finds it riveting. I've been trying to get into this book, on and off, for weeks now, and it's not working.
Is she making friends with a manipulative murderer, or are there other dangers lurking in the darkness of the Greer house?Ī true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel. The allure of learning the truth about the case from the smart, charming Beth is too much to resist, but even as they grow closer, Shea senses something isn't right. Items move when she's not looking, and she could swear she's seen a girl outside the window. They meet regularly at Beth's mansion, though Shea is never comfortable there. When she meets Beth by chance, Shea asks her for an interview. Shea Collins is a receptionist, but by night, she runs a true crime website, the Book of Cold Cases-a passion fueled by the attempted abduction she escaped as a child. But she was acquitted, and she retreated to the isolation of her mansion. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect-a rich, eccentric twenty-three-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crimes. In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind.
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