The Storm - Rachel Hawkins
Pub. Date: Jan. 6, 2025
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Fictional St. Medard’s Bay on the Alabama coast is renowned for its formidable hurricanes, an enduring old hotel, the Rosalie Inn, that has weathered them all, and the mysterious death of the wealthy son of the governor during a hurricane in 1984. Local beauty Lo Bailey was charged but not convicted of his murder.
The Rosalie is now run by Geneva Corliss, whose parents owned it, although her father is now deceased and her mother is in a facility due to Alzheimer’s. Lo returns to the Rosalie with a writer who intends to chronicle her story. Not sure of Lo’s guilt or innocence, Geneva gets entangled in the story as certain events from that fateful time in1984 are revealed. As another killer storm races toward St. Medard’s, secrets are uncovered and danger looms large.
Told in multiple timelines, some of the chapters are titled not by human characters, but by the names of infamous storms that have struck St. Medard’s. This Southern gothic novel has it all…murder, deceit, scandal, deadly weather. There are lies, secrets, twists, and turns; all those qualities that make for another suspenseful read from this author.
Thanks to #NetGalley and @StMartinsPress for the DRC.
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