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The Girl from Silent Lake by Leslie Wolfe

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zutsie's review against another edition

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DNF @ 25%. Struggled.

smilesgiggle's review against another edition

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5.0

Leslie Wolfe never fails to make me stay up past my bedtime to read her thrillers.
Kay receives a phone call from her brother. After a brief bar fight, Jacob is arrested and sentenced to jail time. Kay knows her brother will never survive a month in jail, let alone several.
Kay leaves her FBI BAU profiler job to move back home - a small rural town, her childhood house Kay ditched after graduating high school.
Only to be met with evil. Someone has been taking women, torturing them for months and burying them on Silent Lake. Kay knows it's only going to get worse.
Teaming up with the local detective, Kay races to create a profile to help catch a viscous killer.
Excellent plot, very creative and great suspense. Love the characters. Looking forward to the next book.

melslittlereads's review against another edition

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4.0

Didn’t connect the dots quick enough throughout the story but am keen to continue the series in 2024

sweinstein's review

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adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

ashkat0923's review against another edition

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5.0

I absolutely loved this book, it was so interesting and kept me at the edge of my seat the entire time while reading! I highly recommend this to anyone who loves crime thrillers!!

dawnlaw's review

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5.0

Just wow! This was a fabulous story, I really enjoyed it. It was very tense, dark and secretive and it had me hanging on to every word. I read this late into the night because I couldn’t put it down. I’ve just found another favourite author and I can’t wait for the next instalment. Great book totally deserves 5 stars.

bethsbookshelf's review

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dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

OMG. I devoured this!!!

I started this knowing nothing about it, and within the first few chapters, I wanted to DNF because it was so gory and gruesome. But the characters and the need to know the answers reeled me in, and I am so glad I read this. Yes, it's gruesome. Yes, it's brutal. Yes, it's triggering. But it was worth going on this journey with Kay. What a thrill!

This is the cat-and-mouse story of Detective Kay and a suspected serial killer – known as the "unsub" – who is kidnapping women (and sometimes with their children), keeping them for a few months before murdering them (but not their children) and burying them near Silent Lake. Kay quickly figures out his motive and methods and does everything in her power to stop him before he kills another woman, but when her own troubling past threatens to resurface, she has to decide whether going after the unsub is worth it.

I truly enjoyed every minute of this. The pacing was absolutely brilliant, and I loved that we had an omniscient narrator so we could get into the head of the killer, too. With a detective novel like this, it enriches the story when we get to see the killer, his life, his motives, his twisted thoughts.

This book is perfect for fans of detective novels and weird mysteries like "You" or "Gone Girl". 5 stars.

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