Newly-engaged Marissa Parlette should be the happiest woman in the
world: she has found the man of her dreams, and she will gain a step-
daughter, Anna. However, the day after her engagement, Marissa's
frenemy, Lauren, is found dead after apparently falling from the top of
the cliff. He death has been ruled a suicide, but Marissa knows Lauren
would never kill herself. As she begins to try and figure out what
happened that night, Marissa has no idea that her investigation will
involve numerous hidden skeletons she doesn't want to disturb, and
that her enemy is closer than she thinks...
The best thing about AFTER
NIGHTFALL by A.J. Banner is the tension created in the story
through small and seemingly inconsequential details that later on turn
out to have a huge bearing on the story. I would sit down with AFTER NIGHTFALL, intending to read
only a few pages, but somehow those few pages became twenty or
more pages. The history between Lauren and Marissa also held my
attention, and it is far more complex than anything I have encountered
in other mystery novels.
AFTER NIGHTFALL is a page-
turner and its definitely designed to hook the reader into the mystery of
who might have killed Lauren. Banner does an excellent job of stringing
the reader along on possible suspects, causing me to doubt and
change my mind constantly about who the real killer might have been...
Although I read a lot of mysteries, the ending and its twist in this book
left me surprised and shocked because I did NOT see it coming.
For a reader who is seeking a book that is a cross between women's
fiction and mystery seamlessly blended together into a delightful and
devious cocktail, AFTER
NIGHTFALL by A.J. Banner should be a perfect read.
Imagine your closest friend utterly betraying you. Years
later, when she seeks forgiveness, you invite her to your
engagement party as a gesture of reconciliation. But
seething hostilities rise to the surface, ruining
everyone’s evening. After an awful night, your friend’s
battered, lifeless body is found at the bottom of a rocky
cliff.
Newly engaged Marissa Parlette is living this nightmare.
She should be celebrating her upcoming wedding, but she
can’t shake the image of her friend lying dead on the
beach. Did she fall? Was she pushed? Or did she take a
purposeful step into darkness? Desperate for answers,
Marissa digs deep into the events of the party. But what
she remembers happening after nightfall now carries
sinister implications: the ugly sniping, the clandestine
meetings, the drunken flirtations. The more she
investigates, the more she questions everything she
thought she knew about her friends, the man she once
trusted, and even herself.
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