WAKE

Thank you William Morrow Books and Bibliolifestyle for this gifted copy.

I‘ve found my must read debut book for September! 𝗪𝗔𝗞𝗘 looks like a suspenseful story with an excellent true crime mystery set in Australia. It’s out now so snag a copy!

𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: The tiny outback town of Nannine lies in the harsh red interior of Australia. Once a thriving center of stockyards and sheep stations, years of punishing drought have petrified the land and Nannine has been whittled down to no more than a stoplight, a couple bars, and a police station. And it has another, more sinister claim to fame: the still-unsolved disappearance of young Evelyn McCreery nineteen years ago.

Mina McCreery’s life has been defined by the intense public interest in her sister’s case—which is still a hot topic in true-crime chat rooms and on social media. Now an anxious and reclusive adult, Mina lives alone on her family’s sunbaked destocked sheep farm.

Enter Lane Holland, a young private investigator who dropped out of the police academy to earn a living cracking cold cases. Before she died, Mina’s mother funded a million-dollar reward for anyone who could explain how Evelyn vanished from her bed in the family’s farmhouse. The lure of cash has only increased public obsession with Evelyn and Mina—but yielded no answers.

Lane wins Mina’s trust when some of his more unconventional methods show promise. But Lane also has darker motivations, and his obsession with the search will ultimately risk both their lives—and yield shocking results.

Compulsively readable, with an unforgettable setting and cast of characters, WAKE is a powerful, unsparing story of how trauma ripples outward when people’s private tragedies become public property, and how it’s never too late for the truth to come out.

💬 𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿?

AOTD: Mine was to read a debut book each month and each month I’ve read some amazing debuts!