![]() ![]() She researches who Betty was and learns that there have been a string of murdered women in Fell. There’s also the ghost of a child who died in the hotel pool and of a night clerk who died in the office. Betty is an angry ghost, turning off lights, slamming doors, and generally terrorizing Viv. ![]() Viv is startled by the ghost of a woman, Betty Graham, who was murdered and dumped at the site the hotel now occupies. There is no ambiguity about ghosts in this book–they exist. It’s outdated and weirdly suspended in time. The Sun Down Motel is a character in its own right. She ends up taking a job at the Sun Down Motel, a rundown motor lodge, watching the office during the night shift. She runs off intending to make it big in New York City, but winds up in the small upstate town of Fell instead. In 1982, Viv Delaney is struggling with her parents’ divorce. The book is set in two different timelines, 20. The Sun Down Motel by Simone St James is so good that I realized my hands where shaking when I was turning pages at the end. In fact, here’s the one-line review I posted on Twitter: Added to all of that, the mystery was executed perfectly. It has delicious justice and women coming together to deliver it. ![]() James was the feminist, cold-case mystery I didn’t know I was waiting for. ![]()
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