Release date: July 16, 2024
Publisher: St. Martins
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Synopsis:
The Precipice is a legendary, family-owned hotel on the rocky coast of Maine. With the recent passing of their father, the Bishop sisters—Iris, Vicki, and Faith—have come for the weekend to claim it. But with a hurricane looming and each of the Bishop sisters harboring dangerous secrets, there’s murder in the air—and not everyone who checks into the Precipice will be checking out.
Each sister wants what is rightfully hers, and in the mix is the Precipe’s nineteen-year-old chambermaid Charley Kelley: smart, resilient, older than her years, and in desperate straits.
The arrival of the Bishop sisters could spell disaster for Charley. Will they close the hotel? Fire her? Discover her habit of pilfering from guests? Or even worse, learn that she’s using a guest room to hide a woman on the run.
With razor-sharp wit, heart, thrills, and twists, Jamie Day delivers a unique brand of SUMMERTIME SUSPENSE.
Review:
I really enjoyed the authors previous book, it was such a fun summer thriller and I hoped this would be the same but there was something off about this one for me. One of the biggest issues I had was the pacing, there were several parts and each time it switched it seemed kind of jarring and just threw me off. I liked the locked room aspect and usually enjoy trying to figure out whodunnit with a small cast of characters to chose from but the people here were honestly just annoying and pretty awful. There was a lot of backstory about all of them that takes you out of the action, and then when you’re put back in things were so far fetched and over the top it was hard to take it seriously. I’ll definitely give the author another chance in the hopes her next book is more like her debut.
Overall rating: 3/5
Thanks to the publisher for my review copy.
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