Huntington Public Library Adult Reading Challenge

  This was a phenomenal book! The mystery / thriller element kept me guessing until the end, and while there were some places I think the narrative fell short, I really enjoyed the story overall. Will definitely check out more of Willingham’s work.

 Suspenseful and draws you in quickly. I think I liked the ending better before she added the additional epilogue. It became a different book with that ending (creepier).

 This book is the third in the series and I think the best yet! This book is hard to put down with many twists and turns with some humor by the narrator (Millie) blended in. I highly recommend, but need to read the first two books beforehand.

Have read many of her  books and although they follow a similar format, they are still suspenseful. Good beach read with a clever ending.

 After reading the author's book The Girl on the Train , I decided to read her other books. This one does not disappoint!! Twisting story plots leading the reader through ups and downs. Also shows how sometimes law officers get it wrong!!!

Not a good book to start at night unless you're planning to skip sleeping... I had a very hard time putting it aside! Surprising, gripping, disturbing -- even at the end. I found myself looking for more -- and relieved to have finished it.

This book kept me guessing until the end - and I was on my toes trying to get to the bottom of the mystery element. I think that the plot reveals happen very late in the book, so the ending chapters are a little fast-paced for the precedent set by the novel prior. But all, in all, this was a fun murder mystery!

  I always find McFadden’s books to be easy, entertaining quick reads. The same can be said of The Inmate. Brooke Sullivan decides to move back home to upstate New York after the death of her parents. She moves into her childhood home, but the only job she can find is at the local men’s maximum-security prison as a nurse practitioner. It shouldn’t be too bad, but one of the inmates is her ex-high school sweetheart and the man she put in prison for her attempted murder. Now Brooke must face the man she once loved, the father of her child, and the man who murdered her friends and attempted to murder her. But Brooke will soon learn that what she remembers may not be the whole truth after all. I enjoyed reading this book but I did find Brooke to be a bit annoying of a character. So many things were obvious and in her face, but she continually failed to see them. I wish her character was a bit more likeable.

  Past and present- what would you do if you had to spend 12 hours in a locked psych unit? What would you do if then you saw your childhood best friend was one of the patients? Another hit from author Freida McFadden that is of course a page turner and makes you question your own sanity level.

  First in a series of detective novels, gripping from the beginning. Root for the cop that is up against the wall and doesn’t know who to trust.

Two timelines, two women trying to catch a killer that’s impacted both of their lives directly and through a loved one. Thriller and suspense that mimics aspects of a true crime serial killer in the US.

 This thriller is my first foray into the genre of Contemporary Adult Mystery Fiction, and I was not disappointed! It immediately gave me "misery" vibes, except this protagonist was not the one i wanted to win. I was pleasantly surprised at the end!

 A quick and easy summer read with fairly one-dimensional characters, but an engaging plot which keeps you turning the pages. The ending was pretty satisfactory providing you don't spend too long thinking about potential plot holes!

In this book a young woman desperately tries to get to Stockholm, but along the journey a there is much to be imagined about the nature of the woman's frantic efforts to escape.  

 Jody Prescott Asher is the quintessential heartless woman. Her physical beauty is only matched by her political ruthlessness. Jody manipulates everyone in her path from her deceitful husband to the vice president in order to attain her lofty goals. A wild ride!

  This novel was such a page turner I didn’t want to put it down! Greatly written and super creepy. Kinda reminded me of a haunted mansion ghostly kind of way but was actually real life. I also loved the fact how it was a different read from others it was almost like you were reading 2 different books in one. The ending was such a shocker as well and I’m still thinking about it!

This book deals with trauma. I really enjoyed reading this book and trying to figure out where it lands. Ruth Ware is notorious for taking you down many paths before settling on the truth. Will you figure out the mystery before the end of the book?  

  This was a psychological thriller with twists and turns that make you believe your first, second, and third theories of what's about to happen, are actually 100% wrong! The story is of a husband and wife who suffer numerous family tragedies after marriage and how the husband copes with finding solutions to his living nightmare. Insert the new woman in his life and the living nightmare of deceit, betrayal, lies, and murder weave themselves into her life now. I did not want to stop reading as this book was a page turner.... until the very last sentence kind of left me hanging with the feeling of ' what will happen now?' Colleen Hoover has done it again with her writing that makes you feel as though you're right there with the characters.

  Salacious with a capital S. Who knew Fire Island had so much drama? I thought this would be a fun (local) summer read, but I really hated the characters. Literally all of them. True to the books title they are Bad Summer People. If you are into backstabbing, vapid beautiful people, shallow relationships and affairs galore- this may be for you. A very dramatic summer unfolds in Salcombe (Saltaire) Fire Island and GASP! Also a murder, or is it? And a lot of women's doubles tennis. Not my favorite.

  Birnam Wood centers of the 20-something year old members of an environmental activist group that seeks to fight capitalism and environmental devastation by planting on unused land, public or private. Their lives intersect with a local landowner and an elusive American billionaire that has just made a deal for land rights on protected land. As the story takes us into each character's thinking, it moves at breathtaking speed and manages to tackle several current issues such as environmentalism, intersectionality, and politics.