The Sun Down Motel

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Something hasn't been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.

Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay...show more

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352 pages

Average rating: 7.59

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Anonymous
Mar 23, 2024
8/10 stars
I've read one other book by this author and while I normally love mystery-thrillers, I don't really read a lot of stuff with actual ghosts that turn out to be real ghosts (as opposed to like just part of the bad person's plan). I was a little skeptical because I do like my mysteries to be set in "real life," but I ended up really liking it. It was just the right amount of creepy for me where I was like -_- but also not scary enough for me to actu...read more
JHSiess
Feb 03, 2024
8/10 stars
Author Simone St. James penned the stunningly spooky mystery, The Broken Girls, set in a boarding school for troubled or outcast girls. She has followed up that impressive foray into supernatural suspense with The Sun Down Motel.

The story is related through two narratives. One is the third-person recitation of Viv Delaney's experiences in 1982, culminating on the night in November when she vanished and was never heard from again. The other is Ca...read more
Ahamm09
Feb 02, 2024
10/10 stars
great book and an even better twist
SherBear13
Jan 25, 2024
10/10 stars
What didn’t this book have!? PARANORMAL, TRUE CRIME, ROMANCE!!!!

I liked that this book went back and forth at almost every chapter so it was easy to keep track and be current in each perspective. So so good!!! I was hooked!!
Anonymous
Oct 15, 2023
8/10 stars
Thoroughly creepy take of murder investigation inception with both murder/mystery and paranormal tones. Interesting premise that was just the tiniest bit predictable.

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