The Sun Down Motel

Part amateur sleuth story, part ghost story...all around entertaining. I liked this book a lot more than I expected to after reading some of the other reviews. The two timelines and the mystery aspects of the book kept my interest, so I read through this one really quickly.

In this story, 20 year old Carly has come to Fell, New York to uncover what happened to her Aunt Vivian, who mysteriously disappeared from the Sun Down Motel in 1982. Fell is an odd town where young women tend to go missing or wind up dead. Both Viv and Carly get sucked into the mystery of the Sun Down Motel and all its secrets. I enjoyed reading about their amateur investigations, even if some of it seems a bit unrealistic. It was fun to watch them discover the details and play along with their sleuthing.

The ghost story aspect of this book is well done. It has just the right amount of creepiness without going over the top. The ghosts of the Sun Down Motel are injected into the story just often enough to make it interesting without consuming the whole story line.

Overall, I feel this story is well crafted and enjoyable to read. If you like a good mystery disappearance and a bit of creepiness, this book is for you.