by: Megan Goldin
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Release Date: August 4, 2020
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
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After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name―and the last hope for thousands of people seeking justice. But she’s used to being recognized for her voice, not her face. Which makes it all the more unsettling when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging for help.
The small town of Neapolis is being torn apart by a devastating rape trial. The town’s golden boy, a swimmer destined for Olympic greatness, has been accused of raping a high school student, the beloved granddaughter of the police chief. Under pressure to make Season Three a success, Rachel throws herself into interviewing and investigating―but the mysterious letters keep showing up in unexpected places. Someone is following her, and she won’t stop until Rachel finds out what happened to her sister twenty-five years ago. Officially, Jenny Stills tragically drowned, but the letters insists she was murdered―and when Rachel starts asking questions, nobody seems to want to answer. The past and present start to collide as Rachel uncovers startling connections between the two cases that will change the course of the trial and the lives of everyone involved.
Electrifying and propulsive, The Night Swim asks: What is the price of a reputation? Can a small town ever right the wrongs of its past? And what really happened to Jenny?
The Night Swim is the first book that I have read by Megan Goldin. It centers around Rachel Krall who is the host of a podcast called Guilty or Not Guilty where she has earned a reputation by covering murders and murder trials. In her first 2 seasons, she was instrumental in changing the course of two murder investigations. For her 3rd season, she is following a rape trial in a small coastal town while simultaneously investigating a murder that happened decades before in that same town.
Although it did start off kind of slow, the book eventually got me interested and really started to pick up the pace. The author did a really great job of exploring how class and gender play a role in criminal investigations. Rachel Krall proved to be a very likable and capable investigator in her own right. She truly missed her calling. The book featured an interesting cast of characters that were very hard to figure out until I got closer to the end. I can’t get into any true details because this is truly a double mystery with some compelling plot twists that really made the storyline rather unique. Overall, I did find it all to be hauntingly realistic and relevant to our current climate. I would definitely read another book by this author.
**Received a copy from the author and voluntarily reviewed it.**
Rating: 4
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