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BOOK INFO
Title: The Girl from Widow Hills
Author: Megan Miranda
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publish Date: July 23, 2020
Genre: Mystery Thriller
Series: na
My Rating: 4/5
BOOK BLURB
Everyone knows the story of “the girl from Widow Hills.”
Arden Maynor was just a child when she was swept away while sleepwalking during a terrifying rainstorm and went missing for days. Strangers and friends, neighbors and rescue workers, set up search parties and help vigils, praying for her safe return. Against all odds, she was found, alive, clinging to a storm drain. The girl from Widow Hills was a living miracle. Arden’s mother wrote a book. Fame followed. Fans and fan letters, creeps, and stalkers. And every year, the anniversary. It all became too much. As soon as she was old enough, Arden changed her name and disappeared from the public eye.
Now a young woman living hundreds of miles away, Arden goes by Olivia. She’s managed to stay off the radar for the last few years. But with the twentieth anniversary of her rescue approaching, the media will inevitably renew its interest in Arden. Where is she now? Soon Olivia feels like she’s being watched and begins sleepwalking again, like she did long ago, even waking up outside her home. Until late one night, she jolts awake in her yard. At her feet is the corpse of a man she knows—from her previous life, as Arden Maynor.

MY REVIEW
As a child, Arden Maynor was rescued after being caught up in a rainstorm. She was missing for days, and it was a miracle when she was found alive. Now, Arden is an adult, living far away from her home town and going by a different name. She wanted to get away from her past, but it catches up with her when a man she knew from her childhood is found dead outside her home.
Arden changed her name to Olivia and lives where no one knows about her past. As a child, she was the focus of a lot of media attention after her miracle rescue. She lived through a traumatic event in her childhood, and she wants to leave it in the past. Olivia is an intriguing character. She’s independent and determined. She’s also a little bit unreliable, since she occasionally sleepwalks and doesn’t remember things from her sleepwalking episodes. When a man from her past ends up dead outside her home, she is forced to face her past and find the truth about what really happened years earlier.
The Girl from Widow Hills is a suspenseful mystery that slowly unravels. Well-paced story with interesting characters. A good read for fans of mysteries and thrillers. Atmospheric and captivating.
I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Books by Megan Miranda:
- All the Missing Girls
- The Perfect Stranger
- The Last House Guest
- The Girl from Widow Hills
- Such a Quiet Place
- The Last to Vanish
- The Only Survivors
- Daughter of Mine
Sounds like a top notch thriller!
It was a good one! 💜
I have this one to read and just found the audiobook on Scribd, so win/win for a read/listen. It sounds quite good. Nice review Darinda.
Thanks, Carla! Hope you enjoy it too. 💜