The Sun Down Motel

How it reads

The Sun Down Motel is horror (supernatural mystery, specifically), and its dominant mood is eerie. It's atmospheric and uncanny, with a sense that something is wrong. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in a small town setting, in the recent past, told across two timelines. Its central concerns are secrets, loss and grief and justice. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 327 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.