Friday, May 17, 2019

Two Can Keep a Secret

I really enjoyed McManus's previous book, "One of Us is Lying", and I was looking forward to this one. It was pretty good, too. Twins Ellery and Ezra move to back east to Echo Ridge to live with their grandmother after their mother is forced to go to rehab. Sadie, their mother, was a twin as well, and her twin, Sarah, went missing while the girls were in high school. Sadie never talks about it, but Ellery has developed a true crime obsession. Echo Ridge has a surprising number of deaths and disappearances for a small town, and not long after the twins arrive a girl named Brooke goes missing. Ellery befriends Malcolm, whose brother, Duncan, was the chief suspect in his ex-girlfriend Lacey's disappearance four years earlier. Duncan left town after that, but now he's back and the timing seems suspicious. It was very well done, although I did figure out the killer before the end (yay me!). It was still worth the trip.

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