Dark corners

Megan Goldin

Book - 2023

"Rachel Krall, the true crime podcaster star of Megan Goldin's acclaimed Night Swim returns to search for a popular social media influencer who disappeared after visiting a suspected serial killer. Terence Bailey is about to be released from prison for breaking and entering, though investigators have long suspected him in the murders of six women. As his freedom approaches, Bailey gets a surprise visit from Maddison Logan, a hot, young influencer with a huge social media following. Hours later, Maddison disappears, and police suspect she's been kidnapped-or worse. Is Maddison's disappearance connected to her visit to Bailey? Why was she visiting him in the first place? When they hit a wall in the investigation, the FBI r...eluctantly asks for Rachel's help in finding the missing influencer. Maddison seems only to exist on social media; she has no family, no friends, and other than in her posts, most people have never seen her. Who is she, really? Using a fake Instagram account, Rachel Krall goes undercover to BuzzCon, a popular influencer conference, where she discovers a world of fierce rivalry that may have turned lethal. When police find the body of a woman with a tattoo of a snake eating its tail, the FBI must consider a chilling possibility: Bailey has an accomplice on the outside and a dangerous obsession with influencers, including Rachel Krell herself. Suddenly a target of a monster hiding in plain sight, Rachel is forced to confront the very real dangers that lurk in the dark corners of the internet"--

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Genres
Thrillers (Fiction)
Novels
Published
New York : St. Martin's Press 2023.
Language
English
Main Author
Megan Goldin (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
341 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN
9781250280688
9781250289339
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Review by Booklist Review

Goldin's new novel is a direct sequel to The Night Swim (2020). The FBI enlists the aid of true-crime podcaster Rachel Krall to find out what happened to a young woman who went missing shortly after she visited a man in prison suspected of killing several people. Rachel soon discovers that the missing woman, a social media influencer named Maddison Logan, seems only to exist online. Is there a real Maddison Logan out there somewhere? Or is she the creation of some other person? And what is her connection to the man she visited in prison? Digging into the disappearance, Rachel uncovers a hidden online world and a killer with a dangerous obsession. The Night Swim was quite a good novel, but this one is more complex, more frightening. Goldin keeps readers on their toes, offering tantalizing clues to what's really going on but keeping the truth a closely-guarded secret until it's time to reveal it. A third Rachel Krall novel would be most welcome.

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