The Sun Down Motel

by: Simone St. James
Published: Feb 18, 2020
Genre: Mystery, Horror, Fiction, Thriller
327 Pages, E-Book
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Viv goes missing in 1982 from a small town in upstate New York. Presumed dead for 35 years, her niece Carly travels to Fell, NY to get answers about her disappearance.

The story centers. around a run-down motel where Viv worked while in Fell – she was in search of New York City. Viv worked the overnight shift and when she vanished, it was like life in the town just kept going and no one batted an eye at trying to find the missing woman. Not just Viv but the other missing women in town didn’t get a fair shake either!

The motel holds its own secrets and is the center of all the hoopla in town but, there is also a serial killer on the loose. Girls are found dead all over town and not a single cop is putting forth any good cop work to find the killer. Viv did more cop work than actually, paid cops.

Supernatural. Ghosts. Spirits. All-around strange people. I could have done without the supernatural aspect of this story, it was sloppy and unnecessary. I get it, Viv couldn’t have been a victim of the serial killer because that is obvious but everything else was poorly written and fleshed out.

Heather. Callum. All of them, are unnecessary. Not really true-crime, not really a thriller, more like a sci-fi mystery.

One-Word Summary: Interesting

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