Isabella's Reading Corner: Such a Quiet Place

 

Such a Quiet Place

Author: Megan Miranda

Publication Date: July 13, 2021

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Hollow’s Edge is the perfect place to live, that is until the murders! Ruby Fletcher is convicted of killing Brandon and Fiona Truett. After serving 14 months in prison, she’s released and now she’s back in Hollow’s Edge. This is much to the surprise and dismay of the residents, who testified against Ruby at her trial. Were they all telling the truth or was Ruby innocent of the crimes and is now out for revenge?

Such a Quiet Place is a chilling and twisty whodunnit. It’s an atmospheric mystery with a compelling and unnerving cast of characters. The story starts off slowly with an opportunity to get to know more about them and the circumstances surrounding the killings. If Ruby isn’t the murderer, it could be any one of them! 

Miranda has a delicate, yet convincing way of revealing the layers underneath the surface of the personas. There is definitely a lot more going on in Hollow’s Edge than meets the eye and I enjoyed the tense build up that led to the conclusion! 

From the publisher:

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last House Guest—a Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection—comes a riveting, “suspenseful” (BookPage, starred review) novel about a mysterious murder in an idyllic and close-knit neighborhood.

Welcome to Hollow’s Edge, where you can find secrets, scandal, and a suspected killer—all on one street.

Hollow’s Edge use to be a quiet place. A private and idyllic neighborhood where neighbors dropped in on neighbors, celebrated graduation and holiday parties together, and looked out for one another. But then came the murder of Brandon and Fiona Truett. A year and a half later, Hollow’s Edge is simmering. The residents are trapped, unable to sell their homes, confronted daily by the empty Truett house, and suffocated by their trial testimonies that implicated one of their own. Ruby Fletcher. And now, Ruby’s back.

With her conviction overturned, Ruby waltzes right back to Hollow’s Edge, and into the home she shared with Harper Nash. Harper, five years older, has always treated Ruby like a wayward younger sister. But now she’s terrified. What possible good could come of Ruby returning to the scene of the crime? And how can she possibly turn her away, when she knows Ruby has nowhere to go?

Within days, suspicion spreads like a virus across Hollow’s Edge. It’s increasingly clear that not everyone told the truth about the night of the Truetts’ murders. And when Harper begins receiving threatening notes, she realizes she has to uncover the truth before someone else becomes the killer’s next victim.

Pulsating with suspense and with Megan Miranda’s trademark shocking twists, Such a Quiet Place is Megan Miranda’s best novel yet—a “powerful, paranoid thriller” (Booklist, starred review) that will keep you turning the pages late into the night.

You can read my original Isabella's Reading Corner post on Such a Quiet Place here.