I’m going to go lock all my doors and windows now after reading, “Such a Quiet Place” by Megan Miranda.

Megan Miranda is the queen of suspense. What I love about her books is that she continuously throws those suspenseful curveballs at you all the way until the end of the book. As a suspense/thriller genre lover, it doesn’t get any better than this.

Not being able to have any clue as to what happens in the story until you shut the book is a slam dunk in my opinion.

I read this authors last book and loved it. I really enjoyed this book. It was a bit slow to get started. Gated community where a couple dies and the main characters formate is accused of the murder hut gets out of jail. Such a great mystery to figure out who did it. Did her friend or someone in the quaint little community? So good and once I got to know the characters I couldn’t put it down. Read this!

This is my second Megan Miranda book and I liked this one the best. The cover grabbed my attention right away!

This book shows a small tight knit gated community on a lake that has a couple killed about two years prior. Harper is the main character and owns a home in the community. Her younger roommate Ruby is charged with the death and serves 14 months until an early release. The neighbors all have cameras watching the neighborhood along with a neighborhood watch and endless speculation.

It’s truly a “who done it” to figure out why someone had done what they had done.

This book made me feel creeped out and totally weary of those around us. It made me realize just how much our neighbors know about us and what they see and hear about our lives and routines.

Special thanks to Simon and Schuster and NetGalley for this ARC!

I really like this book- it was a smart, intricate mystery, but also a fast read- I wanted to keep reading! There is also a message here about our communities, how insular they can become, how someone can quickly become the "other", and the dark side of seemingly nice and quiet suburban neighborhoods.

"Sleepy is what the news reports once called us, as if we were collectively lazy, oblivious to the danger among us.
In truth, summers here were always dangerous. In their luxury. In their sleepiness. With their lack of structure and sudden influx of time. Time to notice the things we were too busy for during the rest of the year. Time to fixate. Time to make a change.
Anything taken to an extreme was dangerous. Here, in the summer, there was nowhere to hide--not from others and not from yourself."

I live in a particularly tight-knit community; my neighbors are readily available with bottles of wine and a bonfire on Friday nights and will come running with a hairdryer when our pipes freeze during a freak snowstorm. The neighbors of Megan Miranda's Hollow's Edge community are equally reliable, that is until a former neighbor shows up to shatter the neighborhood's idyllic peace and expose its facade. Miranda's latest novel, Such a Quiet Place, is a slow-burning thriller that adeptly explores the promises and pitfalls of having such a trusting neighborhood, where someone is always watching. She expertly crafts relatable, realistic characters -- charming and frustrating. Harper will have you cheering her on while simultaneously screaming NOOOO, DON'T DO THAT! Such a Quiet Place takes our fascination with true crime stories and forces to reader to consider what happens after the television special is over. Miranda sheds a light on the repercussions of posting on Nextdoor. And she does it with imaginative style: I could feel the humid Virginia air sticking to my skin and the tension rising as I tore through every page., ultimately reaching an ending that did NOT disappoint. This is Miranda's best novel since All the Missing Girls.

A good page turner, well written and a long the same vein of her other books. Worth a read, quick entertaining and a good escape.

Finished this one in 1 day! I always love Megan Miranda books. This one did not disappoint.''

"Who needs cameras in Hollow's Edge. We only needed to open our eyes."

Hollow's Edge is the type of community where everyone wants to live. Quiet, friendly and welcoming. Until it isn't. After a double murder in the community, everyone is watching everyone else. Who needs security cameras? When the accused returns, not only the characters, but also the reader are constantly judging: who is the victim and who is the guilty?

Many characters to track, but with a fast=paced storyline and a satisying conclusion, Miranda has done it again.

Thanks to Netgalley for an advanced reader copy for an honest review.

Two and a half stars rounded up. I've loved Miranda's previous books, but this one fell very flat for me. The first half of the book was a total slog. I had to skim and push myself to keep going.

What "normal" person would let someone who they thought might have been a murderer waltz right back into your house? No one. There's suspension of disbelief, but come on.

And, several plot points annoyed me, number one being: The way Ruby is portrayed when she comes back. Specifically, that she NEVER talked about prison, and it didn't seem like prison changed her very much. You spend 14 months in prison... a lot of bad shit happens in prison.

I think I would have liked this story a lot better if it had been told from multiple POV.

Thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for an advanced copy.

I’ve been a fan of Megan Miranda novels since The Last House Guest was chosen as a Reeses Book Club pick so I was thrilled when I read about her new forthcoming book, Such A Quiet Place, available on July 13th, 2021.

Such A Quiet Place takes place in an idyllic neighborhood in the suburbs of Virginia where everything seems picture perfect. Except it’s not. Everyone has a secret to hide and some secrets are bigger than others. When their neighbors are killed in the middle of the night, the finger pointing starts. So when the accused perpetrator returns to the neighborhood, everyone is on pins and needles.

This is a slow-burn whodunit that really picks up about halfway through. It’s complete with the unexpected twists and turns that are a Miranda signature. It was a fast and intriguing read and is one of my favorites from Megan Miranda. I look forward to sharing this with our community and will consider it as a potential pick for our book club. Thank you to Simon & Shuster and NetGalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

I loved this book! It was such a strong well written story. It was exactly what I needed with everything going on in the world! A mind bending escape!

I just want to say thanks to netgalley and the publisher and author for the arc of this book. She doesn't dissapoint. Everything that I want in a thriller!

*Thank you to Simon & Schuster, Megan Miranda and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review*

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How well do we know our neighbors? This is the question posed in Megan Miranda’s new mystery, Such a Quiet Place. The title refers to the neighborhood of Hollow’s Edge, which used to be quiet, before the double murder of the Truetts—Harper Nash’s next-door neighbors.

The novel begins when Ruby Fletcher returns to the neighborhood after her conviction for double murder is overturned because of false evidence. Unexpectedly, she moves in with Harper, the narrator. Despite Harper’s anxiety about Ruby moving in, she has always believed her friend is innocent. However, their strange relationship is fraught with lies and deception, despite their former closeness.

There are so many wonderful characters in this book: Harper, with her go-with-the-flow vibe, avoiding confrontation whenever she can. And Ruby, who has so many secrets, and is out to get revenge right from the beginning. Javier and Tate live next door and are harboring their own secrets. Tate once a close friend of Harper but no more. Chase, the cop who falsified evidence to convict Ruby, and is now under investigation. And who can forget Mac, Ruby’s former boyfriend, and Harper’s current boyfriend? But that’s not all. There’s the nervous new mother and the young woman taking care of her elderly parents. All of them believe Ruby murdered the Truetts. But did she? And if not, who among them did? Or maybe it was none of them?

In the middle of this mystery, everything turns on its head with a shocking twist. From there, it moves so fast the reader struggles to keep up until the twisted conclusion. Readers are definitely kept on their toes.

Such a Quiet Place is an amazing book that will make you analyze all your relationships, especially those in your neighborhood. It’s also a mystery with no logical conclusion. Finally, it’s an essay on mob mentality and what happens when evidence is falsified. Similar to the game of Telephone, where in the end, no one knows what the first clue was. There is unrest throughout the book, and the reader is just waiting for the last explosion. This is an amazing novel by Megan Miranda, and could ring true anywhere in any neighborhood.

I was so excited to get this ARC, I have always loved Megan Miranda’s writing style and her books have always hooked me

Such A Quite Place tells the story for a neighborhood turned community. Everything was nice and quite until it wasn’t. It wasn’t quiet when Brandon and Fiona Truett were found dead and it definitely wasn’t quiet when the conviction of the murder was overturned and Ruby Fletcher walked free and right back into the neighborhood.

Ruby waltzes right back into her former roommate Harper’s house like nothing changed. However everything has changed and Harper doesn’t know what to believe and who to trust. When Harper starts to receive suspicious notes she realizes it’s up to her to uncover the truth and get down to the bottom of it all before someone else gets hurt.

This book hooked me from the beginning. It was a slow burn but kept me questioning everything while reading. I wanted to continue to uncover more about each character and couldn’t stop reading until I found out the end.

This book will be on sale July 13, 2021!

This thriller is filled with questionable motives and misdirection. It's a true page Turner! Everyone is unreliable in this narration.

Intriguing! Slow burn! Whodunit mystery!
I could not put this one down. As the story took off I honestly didn't think I was going to be able to finish this one.... But Megan did it again with her suspense novel and threw me for a loop!
Wonderful read!

I was super excited to read this on on NetGalley because I have always been a fan of Megan Miranda’s novels. I’ve read All The Missing Girls, The Perfect Stranger, and The Safest Lies and I loved each one! She writes very twisty thrillers that are almost impossible to predict and always waits until the end to reveal the truth.
Harper lives in a quiet college town. Everyone in her little neighborhood works together and know each other very well. After fourteen months, Ruby Fletcher walks into Harper’s house after being let out of prison. Ruby had been found guilty for murdering two neighbors, but recently her case had been absolved. Harper let’s Ruby stay because she doesn’t see that she has any other option, but the other neighbors are quite uneasy about having Ruby in the neighborhood again. They have taken to posting messages about her on the neighborhood message board, setting up a neighborhood watch, and holding private meetings. They don’t trust Ruby and are scared about her living so close to them again. Harper, however, is uncertain about Ruby’s guilt. She thinks that there must be some other explanation and she is determined to get to the bottom of it and figure out what really happened that night. Throughout the book, we see the internal struggles Harper has with trusting Ruby and her other neighbors. This book is full of plot twists, red herrings, and all the other things that make a thriller worth reading!

What I loved:
* Unreliable main character. There were times that I was uncertain whether I could trust Harper’s judgement. I always love that in a book because it makes the reader question everything.
* Unpredictable plot twists. I didn’t see that ending coming at all!
* Fast paced. I loved that there were no unnecessary descriptions and details. The story flowed easily and was very simple to read.

What I didn’t like:
•I wish there had been an epilogue. I still had some questions that were unanswered at the end, but they weren’t important enough to affect my enjoyment of the story.

Ahhh... so good! I’ve always enjoyed Megan Miranda’s writing. Such A Quiet Place was no different! This wasn’t a heart pounding suspenseful thriller, but more like a slow burning mystery. And who doesn’t love some neighborhood drama?! It was a very-quick read for me! Thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for the ARC!

SUCH A QUIET PLACE by Megan Miranda takes place in Hollow’s Edge, a private and tight-knit neighborhood. What was once a quiet place becomes transformed when a suspicious murder occurs and, a year and a half later, Ruby (the convicted murderer) is tried and found innocent and returns to town.

This was my favorite book that I’ve read by Megan Miranda so far. She played with many elements I absolutely love: private communities where everyone appears to know everyone else’s business, murder (who doesn’t love a good murder), and the slow unfolding of secrets.

While I enjoyed the character of Ruby, I found the other characters to be far less likable. Harper (our main protagonist) has a lot of baggage, which, if used properly, could have propelled her story further, but it acted more as a hindrance in this case. That’s not to say I didn’t like her overall arc, because, let’s be real, I was rooting for her a lot in the end.

The pace of this book was also very slow and repetitive for the first half, and Megan Miranda threw in a lot of red herrings that left me thinking ‘what was the point?’ instead of ‘you really got me!’

All in all, this was a really solid book, and I think Megan’s writing continues to get better, so I’ll be on the lookout for her future work!

Publication Date: July 13, 2021

*** special thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review ***

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I was lucky to receive a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion. I'm more than delighted to give my opinion of this book as I have read many by Megan Miranda and this by far was my absolute favorite she's written! This book is excellent and pulled me in from the first page! It has all you want in a suspense book = mystery, drama, excitement, heart pounding action! I highly recommend this book and author to everyone! Don't delay - read this ASAP!

I have been a big fan of Megan Miranda's since I read All the Missing Girls. Her books never disappoint me, and Such a Quiet Place is no different! I loved the setting of the book: a small, but intertwined neighborhood where people try to keep their secrets hidden, but they always see the light of day. A community board that seems to stir up more rumors than share the facts. The mystery of was justice ever served or was the wrong person convicted kept me glued to the pages. Each time I thought I had the answer, Megan threw in another curve ball. I will definitely be recommending this book to my fellow mystery readers. Thank you NetGalley and Simon Schuster for an ARC.