Review: Dark Corners - Book #2 Rachel Krall Series - Megan Goldin - August 2023 We all have those favorite authors who every time they release a book, we know we will read it and enjoy it which is a bonus. For me, one of those authors is Australian author Megan Goldin. After finishing Dark Corners, I now have read all of her books to date - so hurry up Megan, you need to write a new one LOL :). Dark Corners is taken from a quote in the book that you have to watch those dark corners as that's where monsters lie and even more so they can be anywhere. The person who sits next to you on the bus, the person who lives next door to you, or even a family friend. Dark Corners takes Rachel across to the local prison in Florida as her name has come up in an investigation with prisoner Terrence Bailey. He has only had one visitor and now she is missing before she left she was told to find Rachel Krall. Rachel has never heard of either but discovers a voicemail from the missing social media i...

Review: Stay Awake - Megan Goldin - August 2022 This is one author I first discovered a couple of years ago when she released her book The Night Swim. I enjoyed it, so I decided to go back and read her backlist which at the time and I loved all her books. So I decided to add this author to my auto-read list and when I saw she had published Stay Awake that went onto my library hold list. The book starts with Liv - our main female character waking up in the back of a cab with no recollection of her night. She arrives at her apartment only to discover it's not and there is no sign of her roommate Amy. Liv also has lots of pen marks and notes written on her skin including the words - Stay Awake and Don't Fall Asleep. We then learn that every time Liv falls asleep, she forgets the past two years and is right back to just before the fateful night she witnessed her best friend's and boyfriend's murder and was left for dead.  When a guy from Liv's past turns up dead with ...

Review: The Girl In Keller's Way - Megan Goldin - May 2017 After reading both of Megan's later books The Night Swim and the Escape Room, I decided to go back to her debut novel "The Girl in Keller's Way". Like her later books, this one had all the twists and turns and the psychological angle. It was also easier to spot that this was her first novel and I have to admit she has improved quite a lot from this book to The Night Swim and really grown into her writing and found her footing. This book starts with a couple Julie and her professor husband Matt. Julie is a stepmother to their daughter and lives constantly in the shadow of Matt's previous wife Laura who we learn was killed years earlier. The book starts with her going running and needing to clear her head, that is until on her trip she is almost hit by a car that then swerves and crashes. The guy before he dies, tells her to run away as fast as she can and that she is in danger. Shaken, Julie arrives ho...

Review: The Escape Room - Megan Goldin - July 2019 After reading The Night Swim and enjoying this Australian author, I knew I wanted to check out her other books and this one grabbed my attention as I also love the ideas of Escape Rooms. This book starts with a scream, bangs, and several police shots. Then jumps back in time to the story of Sara Hall and her journey of getting a job at the prestigious finance firm Stanhope and Sons. Here she ends up working with Lucy, Jules, Sylvia, Sam, and Vincent and finds herself slowly fitting in or so she believes. That is until Lucy is found to have supposedly committed suicide. Sara knows there is more to the story, but soon finds herself seen as trying to sabotage her team and ends up fired. During this time, she chats with Cathy - Lucy's mother and soon she too is dead. This causes a domino effect and we learn that Sara is the next to die. The book flips back to the present where Sylvia, Jules, Sam, and Vincent are locked in an elevator-t...

Review: The Night Swim - Megan Goldin - August 2020 After hearing good things about this author, I decided to grab and read her book The Night Swim. What drew me to this book was that it had a podcast true crime setting. The Night Swim starts with a death that happened 25 years ago in the small town where a girl was found drowned - Jenny Stills and the cause of death was written as drowning, the thing was that this girl was a really good swimmer and she had bruises on her body. Her younger sister Hannah is convinced it was murder and that it was covered up by authorities. Fast forward twenty-five years and Rachel Krall - the podcaster is back in that smalltown as she is covering a trial where a swimmer - Scott is being accused of raping Katy. As Rachel is in town and Hannah keeps persisting and leaving her clues about her sister's death - Rachel being the investigative type decides to look into it and what she will uncover is a death of a girl similar to Katy whom the town just lik...