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The Sun Down Motel

The Sun Down Motel

Summary

Something hasn't been right at the Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why . . .


1982

Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel, in Fell. But Viv feels that something is wrong, something disturbing and haunting. And then she vanishes.


2017

Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv. She decides to move to Fell and take a job at the hotel - as a night clerk - to try to get to the bottom of the mystery.

But Carly soon discovers that, before she vanished, Viv believed she was on the trail of something truly sinister.


And if Carly can't work out the truth soon, then she's in line to be the next victim . . .

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'Deliciously creepy. A chilling blend of mystery and ghost story' RILEY SAGER, New York Times bestselling author of Lock Every Door


'Spooky, unsettling, and brilliantly written, it will hook you early, and never let go' JENNIFER HILLIER, author of Jar of Hearts

About the author

Simone St. James

Simone St. James is the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases and The Sun Down Motel. She spent twenty years behind the scenes in the television business before leaving to write full-time.. Her debut novel, The Haunting of Maddy Clare, won two RITA Awards from Romance Writers of America and an Arthur Ellis Award from Crime Writers of Canada. Simone spent twenty years behind the scenes in the television business before leaving to write full-time. She lives just outside of Toronto, Canada with her husband and a spoiled rescue cat.
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