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No Rest for the Wicked by Rachel Louise Adams
4.5

Dolores hasn’t been home in almost 20 years but when she is informed that her father is missing, she leaves the secure life she built in LA as a forensic pathologist and heads home. Dolores is from a small town in Wisconsin that is known as the Halloween haven and Dolores doesn’t like Halloween. 

This is a fabulous debut novel full of secrets from the past, someone hellbent on revenge, an awkward family reunion and missing memories from the past slowly coming back. I love that this small Halloween town is overrun by feral cats and that the police spend half their time tracking them down. The main local police officer has a huge chip on her shoulder which is eventually explained, and I was glad to see go which is probably my only complaint about this whole book. Atmospheric and dark the reason behind Dolores’s long absence might hold a clue to what is happening in town as bodies of other high-profile people from the town start dying. 

I am so happy I received a #gifted copy of this book; it grabbed from the very beginning and took me on such an emotional ride with twists I didn’t see coming. This is the perfect time for this book to be released, grab a copy for spooky season and you won’t be disappointed.