by Lisa Unger. *This* is my kind of book!! I picked it up at Walmart of all places on Sunday. I think I've read another book by Unger, but I will now read everything she has written, lol.
I am in the middle of reading it now, a little over half-way through...I would classify it as suspense...Although it's hard to pinpoint at this time the *main* character in the novel, as you keep reading from many different people's viewpoint in the small town of The Hollows...a suburb of NYC? Far from being annoying, the different viewpoints are intriguing and I have enjoyed learning everyone's "story" so far.
Bethany is a novelist and single mother, who decided to move out of NYC to the "safer" suburbs with her teenage daughter, Willow. Willow feels misplaced and misunderstood by the popular crowd in her school and one day just walks out between classes and into the woods, intent only on getting away from the confines of the school and back to her house.
As she's walking through the woods she hears a whacking sound, like a hammer or a tapping...and although she's a little creeped out being in the woods, her curiosity gets the best of her. The sound is coming from a shovel that's being dug in the ground, by a very big man. Willow doesn't stop to investigate further, but runs as fast as she can to her house...What she discovered is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, and an investigation begins (again) to solve a decades-long disappearance.
I haven't hardly been able to put it down. If you like these kinds of books, I recommend getting a copy!
I am in the middle of reading it now, a little over half-way through...I would classify it as suspense...Although it's hard to pinpoint at this time the *main* character in the novel, as you keep reading from many different people's viewpoint in the small town of The Hollows...a suburb of NYC? Far from being annoying, the different viewpoints are intriguing and I have enjoyed learning everyone's "story" so far.
Bethany is a novelist and single mother, who decided to move out of NYC to the "safer" suburbs with her teenage daughter, Willow. Willow feels misplaced and misunderstood by the popular crowd in her school and one day just walks out between classes and into the woods, intent only on getting away from the confines of the school and back to her house.
As she's walking through the woods she hears a whacking sound, like a hammer or a tapping...and although she's a little creeped out being in the woods, her curiosity gets the best of her. The sound is coming from a shovel that's being dug in the ground, by a very big man. Willow doesn't stop to investigate further, but runs as fast as she can to her house...What she discovered is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, and an investigation begins (again) to solve a decades-long disappearance.
I haven't hardly been able to put it down. If you like these kinds of books, I recommend getting a copy!