Follow me down

Title:

Follow me down / Sherri Smith.

Personal Author:

Smith, Sherri (Sherri Lee),

Call Number:

THRILLER SMIT

ISBN:

9780765386700

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

352 pages ; 22 cm

General Note:

"A Tom Doherty Associates book."

Summary:

"Mia Haas has built a life for herself far from the North Dakota town where she grew up, but when she receives word that her twin brother is missing, she's forced to return home. Once hailed as the golden boy of their small town, Lucas Haas disappeared the same day the body of one of his high school students is pulled from the river. Trying to wrap her head around the rumors of Lucas's affair with the teen, and unable to reconcile the media's portrayal of Lucas as a murderer with her own memories of him, Mia is desperate to find another suspect. All the while, she wonders, if he's innocent, why did he run? As Mia reevaluates their difficult, shared history and launches her own investigation into the grisly murder, she uncovers secrets that could exonerate Lucas--or seal his fate. In a small town where everyone's history is intertwined, Mia will be forced to confront her own demons, placing her right in the killer's crosshairs"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

Siblings -- Fiction

Male high school teachers -- Fiction.

High school girls -- Violence against -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Genre:

Psychological fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Geographic Term:

North Dakota -- Fiction.

Publication:

New York : Forge, 2017.

Format:

Books

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Summary

Follow Me Down is a rare find--a gutsy, visceral, and beautifully crafted psychological thriller that Diane Chamberlain called "an engrossing page turner [that] will keep you guessing right up to the delicious ending" from talented new author Sherri Smith.

Mia Haas has built her life far from the North Dakota town where she grew up, but when she receives word that her twin brother is missing, she is forced to return home. Back to the people she left behind, the person she used to be, and the secrets she thought she'd buried.

Once hailed as the golden boy of their town, and now a popular high school teacher, Lucas Haas disappears the same day the body of one of his students is pulled from the river. Trying to wrap her head around the rumors of Lucas's affair with the teen, and unable to reconcile the media's portrayal of Lucas as a murderer with her own memories of him, Mia is desperate to find another suspect.

All the while, she wonders: If he's innocent, why did he run?

As Mia reevaluates their difficult, shared history and launches her own investigation into the grisly murder, she uncovers secrets that could exonerate Lucas--or seal his fate. In a small town where everyone's lives are intertwined, Mia must confront her own demons if she wants to get out alive.

Author Notes

When not writing SHERRI SMITH spends time with her family and two rescue dogs, and restores vintage furniture that would otherwise be destined for the dump. She lives in Winnipeg, Canada, where the long, cold winters nurture her dark side. Follow Me Down is her first thriller.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

At the start of Smith's compelling first novel, John Pruden, the police chief of Wayoata, N.Dak., phones Mia Hass, a Chicago-based pharmacist with a dependence on pills, to ask whether she's heard recently from her twin brother, Lucas. Pruden, who says he's missing, urges Mia to return to Wayoata, her hometown, where she learns that Lucas, a high school teacher, has become the prime suspect in the murder of one of his students. The town residents are all against him, and the inept local police are all too willing to treat the faintest circumstantial evidence as if it were solid proof in what they consider an open-and-shut case. Only Mia is sure of her brother's innocence. To discover what really happened, she must descend into the narrow-minded hypocrisy of the small town she hoped to leave behind her and come to grips with her problematic relationship with her alcoholic, brain-damaged mother. When we think things cannot get worse, they do. Against all odds, Mia fiercely pursues the truth in this unsettling crime thriller. Agent: Beth Phelan, Bent Agency. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

In Smith's debut thriller, Mia Haas returns to North Dakota when she learns that her twin brother is wanted by the police for murdering one of his female students. Mia's life as a pharmacist in Chicago is not without its stresses, but it's nothing like being back in her hometown, where she is haunted by a mentally unstable mother now institutionalized after an accident, a father she never knew, and a police department she has long distrusted. Her current demons are the pills she's stolen from work and keeps in a secret bag at the bottom of her purse. As Mia tries to prove her brother's innocence, she must learn about the victim a popular teen with an overbearing dance mom and a drug-dealing, dropout boyfriend. Some of her information comes from the same guidance counselor Mia had a crush on when she was a student. Though the hidden relationships between some of the characters are revealed a little too perfunctorily in the book's last chapters, this fast-moving domestic thriller will satisfy readers of contemporary suspense.--Keefe, Karen Copyright 2017 Booklist