#Book Review #Giveaway: River of Crows by Shanessa Gluhm

 

 

A RIVER OF CROWS

by

SHANESSA GLUHM

Fiction / Suspense / Thriller / Humor

Publisher: TouchPoint Press

Date of Publication: April 18, 2023

Number of Pages: 427 pages 

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In 1988, Sloan Hadfield’s brother Ridge went fishing with their father and never came home. Their father, a good-natured Vietnam veteran prone to violent outbursts, was arrested and charged with murder. Ridge’s body was never recovered, and Sloan’s mother— a brilliant ornithologist— slowly descended into madness, insisting her son was still alive.

Now twenty years later, Sloan’s life is unraveling. In the middle of a bitter divorce, she’s forced to return to her rural Texas hometown when her mother is discharged from a mental health facility.

Overwhelmed by memories and unanswered questions, Sloan returns to the last place her brother was seen all those years ago: Crow’s Nest Creek. There, she is shocked to hear a crow murmuring the same syllable over and over: Ridge, Ridge, Ridge.

When the body of another boy is found, Sloan begins to question what really happened to her brother all those years ago. What she discovers will shock her small community and turn her family upside down.

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Shanessa Gluhm works as a librarian at an elementary school in New Mexico where she lives with her husband and children. It was during her own elementary days when a teacher encouraged Shanessa to share a story she wrote with the class. She hasn’t stopped writing since.

Her debut novel, Enemies of Doves was an IAN Book of the Year Finalist in the category of first novel, an NIEA Finalist for cross-genre fiction, and first place winner in the Chanticleer Clue Awards for mystery, suspense, and thriller fiction.

When Shanessa is not writing she enjoys birdwatching, reading, and watching true crime documentaries.

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The short story: Dark, twisty and unexpectedly great!

My review:

Starting with a great cover this book sucked me in with a haunting prologue, the meaning of which is not fully understood until the last page. I could hardly put it down!

Facing a divorce, Sloan Hadfield returns to her East Texas hometown to sort out her mother, recently released from a psych hospital. Going home, a place she’d fled after high school, means facing her demons, owning up to her mistakes, and realizing the past is not all what it seemed.

Sloan’s happy life crumbled when her brother Ridge disappears, his body never found and her father accused of his murder. Little by little, the reader learns more about Sloan and her family as author Shanessa Gluhm takes us back and forth in time. Just when you think you have the story sorted, Gluhm hits you with another zinger. Sloan’s journey of discovery is painful as she peels back the layers of parent’s life, forcing her to consider her parent’s actions in a new light.

Gluhm fills the pages of this book with amazing characters and their motivations, machinations, deceptions and lies, and leave the reader with a shocking conclusion! Highly recommend this to readers of suspense/thrillers.

I rate this book 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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