Personally, this book wasn't for me. I couldn't get into or even finish it, which almost never happens. I can't relate the characters or the story line.

This was a book that reminded me at times of other good thrillers by Gillian Flynn or Miranda Leigh. It was a compelling read that kept me turning the page despite at times being uncomfortable with the reading material.

Page turner at its best. Small town secrets, dysfunctional families, murder, abuse, betrayal, lies, lies and more lies with all the twists and turns you need not guess whats going to happen next cause you will be wrong. I was totally into this one until the very end.
Knock, Knock Ginger was a game the kids played I even had to look that up and found its called Ding Dong ditch here in the States.

My thanks to NetGalley, the author and publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I have to say, it's not often that I encounter a book whose main character leaves such a bad taste in my mouth. This is yet another story of a woman whose substance abuse problem clouds her ability to cope with the horror unfolding around her. Same old song and dance: Mia returns to her hometown when a family member (in this case, her twin brother Lucas) goes missing. The high school teacher has been accused of raping and murdering a student who's found dead in the park, with her beautiful red hair shorn. It took me almost a month to read this book, because I feel like I had read it already. I started wishing Mia would disappear, too.

Not only was the plot formulaic, the revelation of Lucas' whereabouts and what happened to his murdered student was almost too disturbing to win my admiration for this book. Worst of all, the ending was weak.

Follow Me Down is about a high school teacher, Lucas, who is suspected of having a relationship with one of his students and subsequently murdering her. When he disappears, his twin sister, Mia returns to her hometown to prove her brother’s innocence. Mia is hard to like at times, but I found her determination to locate her brother as well as her support for him to be endearing. Follow Me Down is a dark psychological thriller that contains quite a few twists and turns along the way and I think this would make a great summer read.

I can't seem to get into this book so I'm DNF it. I have had it on my to-read pile and not getting into it at all.

Well looks like I found a new author to stalk this year. First of all thank you for allowing me to read this early, I am honored. Excuse me tho while I "GOOGLE" the author and purchase her other books.

This is my first read of a Sherri Smith novel and her first psychological thriller. The story was well paced and showed plenty of promise.

The novel is about a High school teacher named Lucas who is accused of rape and murdering one of his students in a small town in North Dakota. His case is not helped by the fact that he is now missing disappearing on the same day the body of one of his students is pulled from the river. Rumours of Lucas’s affair with the dead student also don't help his case but Mia is desperate to find another suspect.
Lucas’s twin sister Mia refuses to believe he is guilty and is determined to clear his name. Lucas and Mia were raised by an alcoholic mother who now resides in a care home due to a brain injury.

This is a very readable thriller and with the strong characters and the well paced plot it will certainly be a success.

I would like to thank Net Galley and Macmillan-Tor/Forge for supplying a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

This was a very ambivalent read for me. While I couldn't put the book down, eager to finally solve the mysteries of murder and disappearance, there where several parts where I was totally frustrated by the main character's unreasonable behavior and naive actions.

Mia Haas is contacted by the police who is searching for her brother. When she is told that Lucas is accused of having murdered one of his students, Mia immediately travels back to her hometown Wayoata. She is determined to find out what happened, as she is convinced that her brother can't be the murderer and fears that he may be a victim of crime himself. Trying desperately to figure out what happened to her brother and who the real murderer is, she treads on almost every foot available in town. However, the police as well as the residents of Wayoata have already convicted Lucas of being guilty for the gruesome murder, being sure that he fled town to escape punishment.

Which each day, Mia uncovers new secrets and intrigues that point to different suspects, but also plant seeds of doubt in her believe in her brother's innocence. However, Mia does not give up, even when intimidated and threatened herself.

The story took some really wild and unpredictable turns, more than once bordering on incredibility. Only at the very end the solution was presented as yet another surprising twist. I loved being left in the dark for so long and led on several different tracks only to find that they led to a dead end. However, at some point it almost became annoying to be given the runaround yet again. One detail that bothered me the whole time was Mia's pill abuse, which seemed a convenient way to explain away her repeatedly crude actions, but soon became tiring and superfluous. But in a weird way, these minor flaws also add to this suspenseful and surprising story's appeal.

Drinking, drugs, unlikeable characters, unreliable narrator - this book has all the hallmarks of a great psychological thriller. Thanks goodness, the premise keeps it's promise. There are many twists and turns, never telegraphed as far as I was concerned. This was the first novel in awhile that I wanted to read til way too late in the night. The pacing is fast, the settings are compelling, the characters are dark and many layered, and the plot is well crafted. I found Follow Me Down to be an entertaining and compelling read. Well Done Sherri Smith.

Follow Me Down by Sherri Smith is a well written, fast paced, enjoyable thriller packed with small town secrets and unexpected plot twists that will have you guessing right up to the very end. I really liked Mia’s character and her unwavering loyalty for her brother Lucas as she struggled to uncover the truth behind a horrible murder in her hometown and clear her brother’s name. This is my first Sherri Smith novel and I look forward to reading her next one!! Thank you so much to Net galley and Forge Books for my advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

Mia received a call from Police Chief Pruden from her home town of Wayoata and he said he was calling about her brother Lucas and had she heard from him. Mia had thought he was calling about her mother Mimi who was in a care center. The Chief Pruden said he couldn’t find her brother Lucas. Then Chief Pruden wanted to know when she could get there. She got a suitcase and hopped on the soonest flight she could get. But she still had a three hour drive from the nearest airport to Wayoata. Mia had tried to call her brother twenty times after the Chief had contacted her but no one answered his phone. The news in the local newspaper said local schoolteacher person of interest in student’s murder.and the date was that very day. The sixteen year old student was found dead after missing for three weeks. Mia’s brother Lucas had lived with Mia in Chicago for awhile trying to be a model or acting but he had given up after only eight months and then returned to his hometown and became a teacher. Mia was a pharmacist . here brother coached hockey. There had been a young officer when Chief Pruden had questioned Mia but she hadn’t recognized Garrett. They were the last member s of a computer club in middle school. Garrett was a year behind Mia in school. They had kissed once but the next year Mia went on to H S and had forgotten Garrett. Mia was let into Lucas's apartment and then found his spare key to use. Mia looked through Lucas’s apartment. The only thing missing was Lucas as far as Mia could tell. Mia called Lucas’s best friend since Little League- Wyatt but he didn’t answer his phone so Mia went to where his parents had lived and found Wyatt and his family now lived there. Wyatt said he and Lucas had drifted apart as he had a family and couldn’t act like a single man with Lucas anymore. Mimi( Miranda) lived in a group home called Lighthouse For Women. Mimi had gotten into a car accident when Lucas and Mia- who are twins- she was in a coma for two weeks when Mimi came to she had a spotted memory and the mind of a nine year old. Mia was a pill popper she had stopped but still had not flushed her stash. But it had been two years since Mia really used the pills regularly but here and there she had taken a pill. Mia took one that day just to help a little. Mia knew she had to find her brother. He had to tell the Chief what had happened and prove his innocence.
I read this story but struggled at times to keep reading it as the story dragged for me and I had a problem with staying interested but I really did want to know what had happened so I kept going and was glad I did. It turned out to be well worth it. I wanted to know if Lucas was innocent and what had really happened to the teenage girl if Lucas hadn’t hurt her. Soon I couldn’t let go of the story. I felt this was a little far fetched but it is fiction but definitely was a good mystery and didn’t turn out to be like I though which was good as well as very entertaining. The plot was very good and I liked the twists and turns of this story and I recommend.

4.25 Stars

Mia Haas left North Dakota behind 5 years ago and hasn't looked back, her brother handles her mother for them and she doesn't have to face the town and life that never did any good for her. Called back by the police for questioning regarding her brothers disappearance, she finds everything is not as she left it behind. Lucas Haas is wanted for the murder of an underage girl, but Mia knows he would never do anything like that and is determined to uncover the truth, no matter what it takes. Facing the town's ridiculing stares is one thing, but uncovering her past to find the answers leads Mia down a twisted trail she can barely handle.

Follow Me Down comes with all of my favorite mystery novel qualities, plus my favorite type of narrator...an unreliable one. Mia is a pill popping extraordinaire, she manages to come across as totally normal to everyone around her, except her mind is a jumbled mess. Readers are treated to her frantic thoughts and desperation bordering on obsession to find her brother and prove his innocence. Like most small towns, Mia's hometown features unpleasant drama between the upper and lower class, secrets covered by years of piled up betrayal and judgement, and the ability to ruin one person's life with a mob mentality. On top of that, this is the height of scandal; Jason is a young, good looking teacher and for him to not only have an affair with a student, but to also kill her, has everyone talking and everyone condemning him. Mia faces those opinions, taking on dangers and participating in slightly crazy antics to uncover the truth, along the way uncovering her own personal truth. She's the kind of character you want to believe, but she's just unreliable enough that you question everything she does. I absolutely never saw the ending coming, Sherri Smith kept the truth of Jason going missing and the true cause of death of the young girl close.

Sherri Smith brings the little town the life, the secondary characters even having such complex personalities that you recognize every person Mia encounters has some part in the mystery that truly spans several years. From the copy-cat best friend and his pot dealing wife to the overly-interested little sister of the missing girl and a school counselor who might be a little more involved than Mia would like, every one of them tells part of the story. It's definitely a case of who-dun-it, a psychological mystery that shows just how corrupt and guilty a tiny town is. Follow Me Down is an immersive experience, when you finish the last page you will be shocked to see you haven't actually been living the horrors alongside Mia. A high 4 stars to Sherri Smith for this new release.

Small town secrets.
High school teacher Lucas stands accused of rape and murdering one of his students in a small town in North Dakota. And now he’s missing.
Lucas’s twin sister Mia refuses to believe that he could ever be capable of these crimes. She hops the first flight from Chicago to help find her brother and clear his name.
After graduating high school, Mia had left North Dakota far behind, never looking back. She and Lucas were raised by an alcoholic mother, now in a care home due to a brain injury. Mia has always carried the heavy burden of guilt and sadness over her mother's condition. Returning home is just reopening the wounds from her past. The deeper she searches for her twin brother and the truth, the old, ugly, dark family secrets once again surface.
You can never go home.
Told through Mia's perspective, she battles her own demons with the help of her happy little red make-up case. (Adderall, Klonipin, Percocet, Ativan, Ambien, Xanax, Provigil). Ouch! Even though she is a career pharmacist she spends more time sampling these drugs than dispensing them. Anything to dull the pain.
With plentiful misdirection as to motive and where Lucas could be, I started thinking everyone in that sleepy town could be guilty. Clever curves to keep you guessing right up to the twisted, shocking end. Highly recommend
Thank you to NetGalley, Macmillan-Tor/Forge and Sherri Smith for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.


To be posted on Goodreads 3/29/17

I absolutely loved Follow Me Down, I thought it was intelligently written, and very well paced. The ending was so shocking and totally unexpected, it made for a very enjoyable read.

Well, what to say about this one. It wasn't terrible but it was a bit of a chore to read. I struggled through it and it felt a lot longer than it was. Not one for me.

Mia Haas gets a call to say her twin brother Lucas, who lives in their home town in Dakota has gone missing. The golden boy growing up and now a school teacher there.

When Mia gets there she finds out from the police that on the same day that Lucas went missing, the body of a missing teenage girl, one of his students, was pulled from a river.

Lucas is the number one suspect as rumours around the town are rife that he was having a relationship with the girl and she had become pregnant. Mia can't believe it, won't believe it and sets out to investigate and prove her brothers innocence. The only problem is, all the clues she uncovers point more and more to Lucas's guilt. Was he the brother she knew and loved or was he a murderer who was sleeping with his young student?

And so the story unfolds. Slowly. Very slowly. Told entirely in the first person by Mia. There in lies the first problem with this book for me. Mia was a fairly uninteresting character. I never warmed to her, had much empathy with her or was particularly interested in her. She rambled on insesintly with little progress in the story being made. There seemed to be page upon page of mundaneness from her and it became a chore to read.

The book also has a mixture of extremely long chapters and then some very short chapters. It just didn't help with the flow at all for me. I still can't believe this book is under 400 pages as it feels as if I have read something twice as long.
The story could have been told in such a shorter format. I don't think the extra words added anything to the story or atmosphere for me. The story itself is a decent enough one. It's basically a whodunit and I kept reading to find out indeed whodunit, but as said it was a chore to read.
The ending was disappointing and the reveal was nearly comical. I didn't buy it all. It all ended up being a bit silly.

I'm giving this one two and a half stars. The first person narrative didn't work for me. Mia was uninteresting, with too much to say with not a lot said. I really struggled to get through this book and I guess ultimately it wasn't one for me.

I would like to thank NetGalley, Sherri Smith and Macmillan-Tor/Forge for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Nice read ..nothing spectacular but nicely written suspense/drama

Mia is a flawed character that is a bit annoying, but one can't help but root for her to help find her twin brother who is missing and accused of murdering his student. Mia is forced to return to her hometown to help prove his innocence. As time progresses, she is not sure if he is missing or possibly even dead himself. Mia gets into a lot of tough situations in her search to find the truth. I couldn't wait to find out how it ended. Definitely a well crafted psychological thriller. Touche for a fabulous, extremely surprising ending. Didn't see that one coming!!!

A wonderful book that I would highly recommend to anyone who enjoys twisty thrillers. Do not miss this one!

I absolutely loved this book. I could not put it down! There were so many twists and turns that made for great suspense. Mia went through hell and back to clear her brother of a wrongful murder. Since it was a psychological thriller, the reader is left wondering if her brother is dead, alive, or is she making this whole thing up. The villain(s) wasn't who I thought it would be at all. Fantastic read!