MYSTERY

She Left

Poisoned Pen. May 2024. 336p. ISBN 9781728292922. pap. $17.99. M
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When Amy Brewer was 17, she walked away from a party at a cabin, angry with her friends. After she left the party, a bomb exploded, and the survivors of the bombing were finished off with a knife. For two decades, Amy has dealt with the fallout and unspoken accusations. She even changed her name in hopes of escaping attention; now she’s FBI Special Agent Therese Brewer. She’s invited to a remote cliffside lodge whose other guests are all connected, in one way or another, with the cabin murders—relatives, friends, the investigating police officer. Their host doesn’t show, and when they discover their cell phones and car keys are missing, one guest confesses she invited them because she wants to find the true killer—who set off the bomb, and who went into that cabin with a knife? But then the woman is murdered, and it doesn’t take long for the other guests to turn on each other as they realize they’re trapped with a killer. Brewer is the protagonist, but each guest gets a chance to share their story.
VERDICT Unreliable narrator Brewer bases her knowledge of the case on her memories as a teen in this novel by Grey (author of A Dismal Harvest under the name Daisy Bateman). Good for fans of Rachel Howzell Hall, Ruth Ware, and Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None.
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