Thrill in the ‘Ville Book Club July: The Good Ones by Polly Stewart
July 16 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Your Thrill in the ‘Ville Trhiller Book Club will take place one week later this month to account for the 4th of July holiday, pushing all the clubs forward for the month.
As always, our book clubs are free and open to all, and the book club pick is 10% off the regular price. You bring the conversation, we’ll provide the treats!
The Good Ones by Polly Stewart
$18.99 Book club price: $17.09 – 9780063234161 Paperback, 304 pp
https://bookshop.org/a/89/9780063234161
A Today.com & Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2024
An engrossing work of literary suspense that illuminates the push and pull of female friendship and the costs of being good when the rules for women begin to chafe.
The last time Nicola Bennett saw Lauren Ballard she was scraping a key along the side of a new cherry-red Chevy Silverado. That was the night before her friend mysteriously vanished from her home, leaving a bloodstained washcloth and signs of a struggle–as well as her grieving husband and young daughter–behind.
Now, nearly twenty years later, Nicola, newly unemployed and still haunted by the disappearance of her childhood friend, is returning to her Appalachian hometown. For Nicola, Tyndall County has remained frozen in time. Everywhere she turns she’s reminded of Lauren. Yet shockingly, her former friends and neighbors have all moved on. Drawn to stories of missing girls, Nicola obsessively searches the internet, hoping to discover a clue to Lauren’s ultimate fate.
Driven by a desperate need to know what happened to her friend, Nicola takes a job in her hometown, determined to uncover any bit of information, any small clue, that can help. Deep down she knows the answers are tucked in the hollows and valleys of this small Blue Ridge county. As secrets come to light and the truth begins to unravel, will Nicola finally find release and break free of the past–or lose herself completely to unanswered questions from her adolescence?
“Polly Stewart’s The Good Ones is a fantastic achievement. A classic Southern Gothic tale told through the prism of modern-day sensibilities. Not to be missed.” –S. A. Cosby, NYT bestselling author of Razorblade Tears
“A riveting, unflinching exploration of adolescent female friendships, small-town pressures to conform, and the true crime lover’s tendency to conflate empathy and voyeurism, The Good Ones drew me in from the first lines and still hasn’t released me, days after finishing.” –Katie Gutierrez, nationally bestselling author of More Than You’ll Ever Know