Where The Dead Sleep - Joshua Moehling

Thriller/Fiction

Rating: 7.5/10

Everybody lies, even as the truth churns through their mind.

I love an eerie small-town narrative, rich with furtive behavior and morally ambiguous characters. And it’s in these places where that saying, you never really know your neighbours, comes to roaring to life.

Ben is a detective turned acting sheriff who has moved to a small town after a tragedy upends his sense of equilibrium.

When he is called to the scene of a brutal home invasion, at first glance it appears that the well-liked local lying in a pool of blood was killed by a stranger. As Ben and his peers begin investigating, turns out the list of people with motive is a mile long.

The business partner. The wife. The ex-wife. The poker buddy. The best friend.

With plenty of small-town machinations playing out in tandem to the mystery at hand, this was an absorbing page turner with a marvelous cast of characters. To say more would be to spoil the fun…

My thanks to NetGalley, Poisoned Pen Press and the author for the advance readers copy.

Book Pairing(s): And There He Kept Her by Joshua Moehling, We Begin At The End by Chris Whitaker, Girl A by Abigail Dean