maesreadingworld 's review for:

The Laughing Dead by Jess Lourey

4.0

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The Laughing Dead by Jess Lourey

Thank you to @jesslourey , @Thomas&Mercer

and Netgalley for my #gifted copy

Publication Date: July 22nd 2025

Genre: Suspense Thriller

Rating:4✨

This is book 3 in the Steinbeck and Reed books! This one starts off right where the last book ended! Van and Harry are back with trying to solve a decades old cold case of The Laughing Girls. You get past and future povs and the spiral of Reed as she try’s to figure out what happened to these girls and why her ID is found at a new scene. 

We get to know Reed a lot more in this one, her past that still keeps finding its way back! I love the backstory and the spiral it all goes down! Reed and Harry make a great team, the way they are so different but work so well together! This case is so complicated and twisted, it had me so invested. The many layers and the fast pacing made is it so bingeable! My favorite character had to be Owl the dog 🐕 pets always make a book better! The end of the book gave me Chills, I loved it so much!