It’s as if Fell has been waiting for her. In 2017 Carly Kirk sets out from her Illinois hometown determined to find some answers regarding her Aunt Viv who vanished while working the night shift at a seedy upstate New York motel. She is especially interested in the years old murder of a young woman whose body was found at the motel’s construction site when it was first being built. She finds herself staying in Fell and working at the Sun Down for more than just one night, developing a deep fascination with the history of the place and the creepy events that take place when daylight fades and the Sun Down spooks come out to play. It’s a good bargain for the fiscally challenged girl and she accepts. She makes a deal with Viv: Viv can stay for free, if she agrees to take a nap for the next few hours and then cover the graveyard shift. The owner is in the office, frustrated that an employee has quit and she will have to work all night after having been there all day. A hitchhiking experience gone wrong lands her in quiet Fell, NY at the Sun Down Motel, a rather shabby roadside inn. In 1982, a fight with her mother has young Viviane – Viv – Delaney fleeing her small Illinois hometown for New York City. A dual timeline tale of two women thirty-five years apart looking for answers to a series of disappearances, it contains the eerie, haunted tone I expect from this author’s work together with an excellent, engrossing mystery which had me finishing the story in a single sitting.

Completely addictive, riveting, and engaging, The Sun Down Motel is the latest supernatural thriller from Simone St.

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