The Sun Down Motel

By Simone St. James

The Sun Down Motel - Simone St. James
  • Release Date: 2020-02-18
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 846 Ratings

Description

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 for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isnʼt right at the motel, something haunting and scary.

Upstate New York, 2017. Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv, who mysteriously disappeared from the Sun Down before she was born. She decides to move to Fell and visit the motel, where she quickly learns that nothing has changed since 1982. And she soon finds herself ensnared in the same mysteries that claimed her aunt.

Reviews

  • Lost an entire day!

    5
    By DCwhatsnext
    Page-turner, like a Stephen King novel. I feel like I know Fell similar to the way I came to know Bangor, Maine. This was a living, breathing story … best one I’ve enjoyed in a very long time!
  • Very intense and can’t put down read!

    5
    By kceemarie
    The whole book is great and an easy read, especially since you won’t want to put it down.
  • Very different

    5
    By Oda Gene
    Loved this book. A really different take on a murder story.
  • Loved it

    5
    By amateurreader12
    It was a great mystery to uncover.
  • Loved it

    4
    By mrs.muench
    Slow till about the middle of it and then totally picks up and takes you for all kinds of turns.
  • Suspension is so intense!!

    5
    By kaykaybean13
    Such a well plotted and mysterious that you’ll be so engrossed by the first few pages you’ll not be able to put it down. Author has an exceptional way of leading the reader to conclude who is causing the chaos or danger in the specific scenes nearly taunting you and encouraging us to make that assumption when whiplash hits you and the plot thickens when the twisted dark and astonishing climatic explosion is dropped seemingly out of nowhere. Each time you think you’ve smugly solved this harrowing and immensely intriguing story you’ll be sadly mistaken while wiping your smugnesses off your face and simultaneously giving the author mad props for their artistic genius and honed ability that enables them to write so cunningly and the characters have complexities that you’ll soon come to understand once the climax is revealed that you’d never caught on to several of the warnings that are there cleverly interwoven throughout some spectacular workmanship and linguistic mastery. Well well done. Read this while standing betwixt by the roaring pace this story takes off on standing in my kitchen having gone in to get a water- not having the forethought or afterthought to sit down so there I have stood entrenched in the chaos of these characters lives and decisions and marveled when all the individuals lined up being if not directly connected to one another they were a close indirection.
  • Great

    5
    By Cub3356
    It’s not my style of book and took me a minute to get into, but I couldn’t stop once I started and had to keep reading because it just drew me in. The story telling is incredible 10/10
  • Great book.

    5
    By RockV11
    Fantastic storyline. Well written.
  • Twisty

    5
    By marypesta
    Could not put it down.
  • Well done!!!!

    5
    By Ldecook
    What a delight to feel my skin crawl and my eyes pop, I thoroughly enjoyed this book!