Publisher: William Morrow
Published: June 15, 2021
Source: Netgalley via Scene of the Crime/Publisher
Summary:
From the author of the “full-throttle thriller” (A. J. Finn) No Exit—a riveting new psychological page-turner featuring a fierce and unforgettable heroine.
Three months ago, Lena Nguyen’s estranged twin sister, Cambry, drove to a remote bridge sixty miles outside of Missoula, Montana, and jumped two hundred feet to her death. At least, that is the official police version.
But Lena isn’t buying it.
Now she’s come to that very bridge, driving her dead twin’s car and armed with a cassette recorder, determined to find out what really happened by interviewing the highway patrolman who allegedly discovered her sister’s body.
Corporal Raymond Raycevic has agreed to meet Lena at the scene. He is sympathetic, forthright, and professional. But his story doesn’t seem to add up. For one thing, he stopped Cambry for speeding a full hour before she supposedly leapt to her death. Then there are the sixteen attempted 911 calls from her cell phone, made in what was unfortunately a dead zone.
But perhaps most troubling of all, the state trooper is referred to by name in Cambry’s final enigmatic text to her sister: Please Forgive Me. I couldn’t live with it. Hopefully you can, Officer Raycevic.
Lena will do anything to uncover the truth. But as her twin’s final hours come into focus, Lena’s search turns into a harrowing, tooth-and-nail fight for her own survival—one that will test everything she thought she knew about her sister and herself…
My thoughts:
I absolutely loved Taylor Adam’s last book, No Exit, and as soon as I saw this new one, I immediately added it to my to-read list. I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it and only hoped it lived up to the high expectations that his last book did…and luckily it totally delivered!
This writer knows how to deliver thrilling, edge-of-your-seat thrillers that are totally binge-worthy. Just like his last book, I completely devoured this new one in a single afternoon. I just could not put this one down once I started reading it and I love books like that. Each chapter hooked me more than the last and on top of that, seemed to end in little cliffhangers which just begged me to keep reading. There was just no good stopping point with this one.
I absolutely loved the way the story is structured…it is so clever and just pulls you in even more. It alternates between the present with what is happening with Lena’s search for what actually happened to Cambry and the past with chapters written on how Lena imagined Cambry’s last hours went. And you also have blog entries that Lena has written that are interspersed throughout that tell more about Lena and her motivations for what she is doing.
As hard as I tried to work out what was going on, this one really kept me guessing and I loved that. The twists and turns were perfectly placed and led to an ending I did not see coming. If you like intense, binge-worthy books, definitely add this one to your list!
