No Rest for the Wicked

No Rest for the Wicked by Rachel Louise Adams is a thrilling mystery full of unresolved trauma, family issues, and small-town drama.

Dolores Hawthorne left home right after high school and didn’t return again until 18 years later when the FBI calls to tell her that her father, once town mayor, now U.S. senator, has gone missing.

Now a forensic pathologist, she finds herself in the middle of the investigation as bodies start to pile up, which may or may not be connected to her father’s disappearance.

A classmate’s disappearance years ago may also be connected, but Dolores’ own memories of that period are fuzzy due to a traumatic event on Halloween night when she 17 - a night that left her with a large scar on her abdomen and that is completely blocked from her memory.

As Dolores reconnects with her past - including her younger brother who was a child when she left and a younger sister she’s never met - she starts to question what she knows about her father and what really happened that Halloween night,  how it’s connected to what’s happening now, and how the fallout may impact the whole town.

No Rest for the Wicked is perfect for fans of shows like Broadchurch or True Detective or, with it’s Halloween vibes, even a little Twin Peaks, where the local politics of a town are as much a character as the people, everyone is a suspect, and very few are really innocent.

The audiobook was excellently narrated by Jeremy Carlisle Parker.

Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the advance copy for my honest review.

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