by Kelley Armstrong
St. Martin's Press, 2024. 324 pages. Horror
A year ago, Nicola Laughton's life turned upside down when her husband Anton died in a car crash. Images of the crash, featuring a light hovering over Nicola as she cradled Anton's body, went viral when bystanders swore they heard Anton's voice saying "I'll be waiting for you" after he died. Convinced to put the rumors to bed and move on with her life, Nicola and her nearest friends rent a cottage on the shore of Lake Erie. They hope to create the ideal conditions to hold a seance to see if Anton really has any last words for Nicola. But what starts out as a fairly normal seance turns into something more dangerous.
This ghost story/haunted house novel has just the right spooky vibes for some Halloween pleasure reading. While the main story focuses on Nicola's attempts to contact Anton, other elements also add to the atmosphere, including the very strange behavior of the local bugs, Nicola's reflections on a teen prank gone wrong, and a neighbor searching for her missing son. All of these elements combine to slowly ramp up the tension to a truly terrifying, somewhat gruesome, fully satisfying finale.
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