Decades of doubt, fear, and suspicion won’t let a
woman overcome her trauma in a riveting novel of suspense by the Amazon
Charts bestselling author of Jane Doe and The Hook.
The murder
of Elise Rockwood’s sister shattered her family. Their mother’s anxiety
kept her housebound. Elise’s paranoid brother, Kyle, saw conspiracies
everywhere. Elise numbed her grief in an aimless lifestyle that left her
emotionally broken. All of them victims. A local boy eventually
confessed, but the damage was already done.
Years later, Elise is
reinventing herself. She’s bought a mountain lodge to be close to home
again and to find stability. Not even an email from her ex tempts her
into revisiting the past. But Kyle won’t let it go. He still believes
there’s more to their sister’s murder—and the confession—than meets the
eye. When Elise’s ex is found dead in the same forest where her sister
went missing decades before, Elise is finally willing to listen.
The traumas of the past are reemerging. So is the truth. Elise’s greatest fear now is who will survive it.
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What I thought about Follow Her Down
I like a good, twisty mystery with lots of suspense and omg reveals and this book checks all my boxes for this genre. This author has a habit of surprising me with her stories and this one was certainly dark and twisty.
Elise and her family have experienced the trauma of a family member's murder and the search for the killer has everyone in high anxiety which exhibits in different ways. There are plenty of conspiracy theories as the family deals with their grief.
I'm not going to say much more because I don't like to spoil these sorts of stories, but I did enjoy this one in spite of a bit of a slow start. Once things get rolling, the pace is great and the reveals are quite interesting. I like it when I can't figure all the details out on my own. Elise is an unreliable narrator and that just adds to the fun of it all.
Overall, I liked this. It was long, but the last half was worth it and the ending is terrific.
About the Author
Victoria Helen Stone, author of the runaway best seller Jane Doe, writes critically acclaimed novels of dark intrigue and emotional suspense. Aside from At The Quiet Edge, The Last One Home, Problem Child, Half Past, and the chart-topping False Step and Evelyn, After, she also published twenty-nine books as USA Today bestselling author Victoria Dahl and won the prestigious American Library Association Reading List award for best genre fiction. Her novels have been published in English, Russian, Italian, Greek, Spanish, Lithuanian, Portuguese, German, French, Japanese, Indonesian, Czech, Hebrew, Estonian, Polish, Norwegian, Dutch, and Thai.
Victoria writes in her home office high in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, far from her origins in the flattest plains of Minnesota, Texas, and Oklahoma. She enjoys gorgeous summer trail hikes in the mountains almost as much as she enjoys staying inside by the fire during winter. Victoria is passionate about dessert, true crime, and her terror of mosquitoes, which have targeted her in a diabolical conspiracy to hunt her down no matter the season.
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