At a religious summer cam the teen counselors are having fun with swimming horseback riding as well as hijinks when two girls go missing. The case is cold for two decades.
A off the grid local is out clamming in the area and discover a jawbone. The police track down all the former participants for an unwanted reunion to go over the details again. Only someone is happy to see them back so they can pay for perceived slights and real crimes.
The suspense builds and who the guilt party is turns on a very clever perceived injustice.
A very good read from a very good author. Guessing until the end. Read the story in two days.

So far, I seemed to have like this book more than some of the other reviewers.

This was very twisty and I thought the back and forth between present day and the past worked well. Our group of suspects is an interesting one, each hiding secrets that range from (in my opinion) rather minor, to secrets that can destroy lives. And as you read, you wonder just who might be willing to kill to protect those secrets.

Great Literature (cap absolutely intentional)? Nope. But a fun beach read? Absolutely.

Expect suspense, thrills, and a few sordid secrets!

Just have your popcorn ready!

After I got the book but before I started it, I saw a review on Goodreads saying that it was chick lit filled with soap opera cliches, which put me in a bad frame of mind starting it because I'm not interested in that sort of book. So I judged it a little harshly at first, especially the first two chapters, but I actually did get into it as I read along. The story goes back and forth between "then," which takes place at a Christian youth camp where several of the camp counselors disappeared, and "now," 20 years later, when part of a body is discovered. None of the counselors told the whole truth when the original disappearances happened, and now everyone is kind of covering their tracks because they all have secrets from the past that they don't want coming to light. A lot of the book felt over-dramatized; when certain "secrets" would finally be revealed and turn out to be not really a big deal, it felt like a big lead up to nothing. There was a lot of mixing and matching of romantic and sexual partners between the teenage counselors, but I found it hard to believe that so many of the ex-counselors were still so sexually attracted to their former crushes or partners 20 years later as adults that just the thought of the other person would have them making stupid decisions. Also, this book is FILLED with unwanted/unplanned pregnancies and miscarriages. It was disproportionate in a group of only 9 women. I did actually like the majority of the book and was really interested by the end. However, the ending itself felt like a letdown. A lot of things happened all at once, very quickly, and most of the big reveals kind of felt like, "THIS is what I waited the whole book for?"

I tried so hard to like this book but I just couldn't get into this story. I like a decent suspenseful book and this book didn't have any of the makings of a good suspense book. I flew thru this book trying to read it but unfortunately the book was a bit juvenile and boring.

This book focuses on the disappearance of 2 teen girls from a Christian summer camp 20 years ago. When the skeleton of one of the missing girls is found, 5 former counselors from the camp return to tell their story of what happened so many years ago. The trouble is they weren't entirely honest 20 years ago. Now some of them just want to tell the truth and let the chips fall where they may.

This wasn't my favorite book of Scottolines. It was a good read but just not as good as some others I have read. There was a mystery, but I pretty much guessed what happened before the end of the book. I would give this book 3 1/2 stars. Thank you to net galley for an advanced readers copy.

Thank you to Net Galley for an ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review. I like the author, and I was excited to get it. It wasn't her best, or maybe it was me. I expected more thriller and intrigue, but it was more "mean girls." I didn't like the characters...none of them, which meant I couldn't care about them. The story goes from 20 years ago, when something tragic happened at summer camp, and present...when a body is discovered. I might try to read it again at some point, but I stopped about halfway through this time.

A summer camp prank has deadly repercussions that carry far into the future. Sheriff’s detective Lucas Dalton is investigating the human remains found at what used to be a summer camp. Dalton’s preacher father ran the camp twenty years earlier when two teenage girls disappeared. It was thought the girls were taken by a dangerous man loose in the woods at the time. Now the seven former counselors have returned, one of them, Bernadette, is the woman Dalton has never been able to forget. But Dalton is going to to find himself up against a wall of silence, because the seven former counselors have sworn never to tell what happened that terrible night. But the terror is not over, and if the women will not divulge what happened, more people will die