Why we’re excited
Home again to look after her mother, Jodi spots a young woman strolling alone along her childhood street on her very first night. By morning the woman has vanished. A second story follows Doreen, a teenage bride in 1970s Fresno, and the two timelines eventually meet.
Aggie Blum Thompson writes suburban suspense, and her earlier novel You Deserve to Know found a wide audience. This standalone adds a documentary-maker angle as Jodi starts filming her neighbours. Readers who like domestic thrillers with dual timelines and suspicious neighbours should note this one.
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What to know about Hide Me in the Night
You Deserve to Know is the one Aggie Blum Thompson book we have reviewed, at 4 out of 5.
From the publisher
From the “master of suburban scandal” (Samantha M. Bailey) and author of You Deserve to Know, soon to be a Hulu television series, comes a new suspense novel about the secrets we keep to survive.
Jodi Wagner has reluctantly returned to the suburban cul-de-sac where she grew up to care for her aging mother. On her first night back, she sees a young woman walking alone down the middle of the street.
The next morning, the woman is missing.
And Jodi is the last person to see her alive.
An aspiring documentary filmmaker, Jodi has a new the missing woman. As she digs deeper, she learns of a second woman who vanished from the cul-de-sac years earlier. Neighbors insist the reclusive man living next door is responsible. Jodi is hesitant to believe her childhood neighbor could be a monster. But as she turns her camera his way, the mounting evidence against him becomes impossible to ignore.
Meanwhile, Doreen Weaver has a story of her own. In 1970s Fresno, while a serial killer terrorized the city, Doreen was a teenage bride married to a charming but volatile man whose rages forced her to flee. But not before she glimpsed something truly terrifying.
As Doreen’s past and Jodi’s investigation collide, the documentary becomes more personal than Jodi ever imagined, uncovering secrets women have kept for generations in order to survive.
At its center is a terrifying truth -- the worst horrors are often closest to home.
Description supplied by the publisher.
We haven’t read Hide Me in the Night yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
