This spooky novel is part murder mystery, part ghost story, with a serial killer and a family saga bouncing between two different eras... all in one mostly empty and forgotten motel in a tiny creepy town in upstate New York.
Fell, New York, 1982. Viv is on her way to New York City, when she discovers that she has run out of money along the way. She stops at an old mostly empty motel to see if she can talk the clerk into letting her stay for one night. Not only does he let her stay, he offers her the job of night clerk to earn money before she moves one. Not in any hurry and intrigued by the motel, she accepts. During her weeks as the night shift clerk, she encounters mysteries and murders and ghosts (a woman, a boy and a man who smokes). Rather than being scared off, she becomes determined to stop the killer and unravel the mystery. One night, she disappears.
Fell, New York, 2017. Carley has always been curious about her aunt Viv who disappeared, suddenly, before she was born and whom her mother refused to speak of until the day she died. She visits Fell and the Sun Down motel in hopes of finding clues to the mystery of the disappearance, and herself becomes intrigued with the motel that hasn't changed since 1982. Same shower curtains, same candy machine, same décor. It doesn't take long before she is obsessed with the same ghosts and murders and she too decides to find the killer.
Through chilling twists and turns, things aren't always as they appear and murderers get murdered, ghosts get revenge, and knowledge is shed on mysteries that are decades old.
Recommend for those looking for a fun and creepy read.
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