VBT# The Overnight Guest - Heather Gudenkauf

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The Overnight Guest

VBT# Review: The Overnight Guest - Heather Gudenkauf - January 2022

Lately, I have been reading more thrillers than romances as at the beginning of January I felt that every romance book I tried was just blah and ended up being a DNF. I have seemed to have more luck with thrillers and this particular author, I have read 5 of her prior books - one I didn't enjoy which was Missing Pieces but the other 4 were amazing and ranged from 1 - 3 star, 1 - 4 star and 2 - 5 stars. The Overnight Guest will be added to the 4-star pile. The book starts with a murder that rocked the small town of Burden and remained unsolved - a murder that left one girl alive Josie and the other Becky missing. Now twenty years later, a true-crime writer who has a dark secret Wylie Lark is back in Burden and writing a book about the crime. What she doesn't expect is that by the end of the book she will have discovered the "real truth" about what happened that fateful night twenty years ago and uncover some horrible secrets. During her stay, there is a massive snowstorm and Wylie hears her dog barking and out in the snow discovers a child left for dead. It turns out that the child and her mother were in a horrible truck accident and running for their lives. Can Wylie help save them both before it's too late and what happens when she learns the identities of the woman and child? The Overnight Guest has three storylines POV's running through the book - we have Josie from twenty years ago leading up to that night and the night in question, Wylie - in the present writing her book and then a family where the mother/daughter are in danger. I liked the twist of this book and it also happened to encompass my favorite tropes of new identities that the last chapter was another of my favorites and one of the reasons I forever recommend the book The Never List by Koethi Zan. So, if you loved The Never List by Koethi Zan, Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy, or The Ice-Cream Girls series by Dorothy Koomson - then you will love The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf.


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