Savage Ridge by Morgan GreeneMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Release Date: 21st March 2024
Savage Ridge is a small town in American Pacific Northwest, in which Nick, Emmy, and Pete murder their high school classmate, Sammy Saint John, but no arrests were made and there's no body. The three flee Savage Ridge separately, to never return.
Nick, Emmy, and Pete are all drawn back to Savage Ridge and meet up for the first time in ten years, at first they think it's a coincidence, but later find out that is Private Investigator Sloane Yo behind their return, luring them back, to get to the bottom of Sammy Saint John's disappearance for the Saint John Family.
This book is a clever, dark and gritty why-dunnit, because we know who, just not the reasoning behind it, which is a refreshing change, and leads to an interesting reading experience, as you're not spending the book trying to figure out who it was and can really get into the story of what it's like to live in a small town, with no real police resources or hospitals near by and explore what happens when a town is left to fend for itself, against the rich and greedy.
I listened to this as an audiobook, which at first took me a couple of chapters to get into, especially with the different narrators, but once I settled into that rhythm I soon got hooked on the story and wanted to hear more.
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