Review: Bonfire

Bonfire by Krysten Ritter

Genre: Psychological Thriller/Crime Fiction/Thriller
​Page Length:  256 Pages
Publication Date: 9 November 2017
Publisher: Cornerstone Digital

Stars:  4 out of 5

LINKS: Amazon (UK)

ABOUT BONFIRE
It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all evidence of her small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.

But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town's economic heart, she begins to find strange connections to a decade-old scandal involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her friends—just before Kaycee disappeared for good.

But as Abby tries desperately to find out what happened to Kaycee, troubling memories begin to resurface and she begins to doubt her own observations. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret, her search threatens the reputations, and lives, of the community and risks exposing a darkness that may consume her.

With tantalizing twists, slow-burning suspense, and a remote, rural town of five claustrophobic miles, Bonfire is a dark exploration of what happens when your past and present collide.

My Review

I am a sucker for plots just like Bonfire: Girl escapes town, does well for herself, and has to return.

BONFIRE delivered and it was full of twists and turns. Who to believe? Who to trust? Who to champion - the former prom king or the ne'er do well bloke who runs the local off license? I read this book in a couple of days and I went to bed an hour early to get in extra reading time.I found myself surprised at the story, I thought it was going to be an environmental legal thriller in the vein of Erin Brockovich but it was so much more. The unreliable heroine embroiled me fully with her woes, worries, and school memories. 

A great debut novel.
Highly recommended.