narrated by Sarah Naughton
Unabridged audio (11:18)
2019
364 pgs.
Contemporary Mystery
Finished 1/30/21
Goodreads rating: 4.03 - 1736 ratings
My rating: 3
Setting: St. Lucy's, Maine - an island off the coast of Rockland, winter
First line/s: "Then. The whimper was a quiet thing, broken and almost lost to the wind battering the outside of the lighthouse."
What I posted on Goodreads: Chose because of the Maine setting. The mystery was okay. Characterization only so-so.
My comments: Always drawn to novels that take place in Maine, this enticed me because it was also a murder mystery. I think it could've been a good one, but there were so many different scenarios offered by the two cops that it bacame confusing. And repetitive, which seems to be something that really bugs me. I never felt I knew any of the characters at all so I wasn't even sure of motivations. I did get a sense of Asher, but not of Cash, definitely not of Mia's mother, an what I did get was mostly told and not show. Great concept for a book but didn't ssem to fulfill its vas opportunities.
Detective Mia Hart never planned to return home. One terrifying summer night, Mia lost two of her closest friends to suicide. Scarred and broken, she fled St. Lucy’s, a small island off the coast of Maine.
Now fifteen years later, when the body of a journalist is fished out of the bay near St. Lucy’s cliffs, Mia is forced to help with the case—and face all she’s been running from. As she approaches the island, the wintery winds of Black Rock Bay usher Mia home again.
When Mia digs into the reporter’s death, she finds he left behind a written clue: It wasn't suicide. Mia soon discovers it’s her own tragic past he was referring to. Now, as she tries to untangle a web of lies, Mia realizes that solving this case means becoming the next pawn in someone’s blood-chilling game of truth or die.
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