This was a fun read and I certainly had to keep guessing who I thought the killer was. I didn’t figure it out until the end but it wasn’t very obvious and I appreciate that. I was able to enjoy the story d mystery because there were so many potential scenarios it kept me in my toes. The only thing I didn’t love is it was hard to keep up with the characters as there were 10 guests in the lodge and 5 victims in the previous mass slaying, it was a lot to remember. Overall, I would recommend this for anyone looking for a fast paced murder mystery!
Thanks NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for eARC of this book for my honest review. Comes out everywhere May 14!


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This was just too slow a burn for me. I like more things to be happening and the plot to be constantly progressing and this just dragged a bit too much for me. The ending was the best part but it didn't make up for such a slow death march to get us there

Amy is a survivor after she walked away from a party with her friends and they all ended up massacred
Now 20yrs later she is invited to a get together in a remote cottage where the guests are getting murdered one by one.
It started out interesting but went downhill for me with it going so slow and not one likeable character. But it did have a twist at the end.

Thanks to the publisher and to Netgalley for the ARC and I give my honest review.

✨ARC Review✨

Twenty years ago, Amy walked out of a house party, away from her five friends who made her feel like she didn’t belong. Shortly after, those five friends end up dead. Flash forward twenty years, ten people with connections to that night are in a remote house to help a journalist write a piece on those murders….or are they? Nothing is as it seems….

Even though I finished this book, I really should have DNFd it. It was a “whodunnit” with a failed execution. I liked the creative point of views, but we didn’t get much backstory into the “why” all those years ago until there was less than 10% of the book left, so the plot of bringing all these characters together, was ultimately a downward spiral crammed into 10% of the book. I held out hoping this book would grip me eventually, but it didn’t.

✨Rating✨
⭐️⭐️/5

Your classic reunion after a tragedy. What actually happened that night years ago? Why were these certain people brought together years later? Who is responsible for the murders?

I was intrigued and interested in the premise of this book from the blurb. It did fall flat for me though. There were a few exciting moments in the story, but I was kind of bored for most of it. The reveal at the end wasn't expected, I had someone else pegged for the killer. What I did enjoy was how all the characters were chosen for the get together, and how they were involved with the teens who died. Overall, it wasn't bad just wasn't a favorite.

This was a really enjoyable whodunit and then there were none style book. I am a sucker for a good can you solve it mystery and I enjoyed this.

Could I have solved it based on the information given to the reader? No. But I felt like it carried me to the end well enough I wasn’t too bothered by that. While the ending isn’t exactly satisfying, it wraps it up enough I was okay with it.

It’s a quick read and you want to know what happens at the end, a great beach read vibe. Thank you NetGalley!

Review: Thank you to @netgalley and @poisonedpenpress for my advanced copy of this book. This book was just meh for me. While I was surprised by who the killer was at the end of the book, everything leading up to that point didn’t really capture my attention. It wasn’t until the last couple chapters that I was really interested in what was going to happen. All in all, this book just wasn’t for me…

Amy Brewer left a party and that made her the sole survivor of what came to be called the Memorial Day Massacre. Twenty years later, Amy (now an FBI agent) is among ten people with connections to the five victims who have been invited to a remote location by a journalist proposing a story on the murders. But as a storm closes in, guests are picked off… apparently somebody intends to kill to keep their secrets.
She Left is a locked-house mystery. Finding many of the characters unlikeable impacted on my care factor, however, it’s an enjoyable and easy read. 3.5 stars

***A big thank you to Poisoned Pen Press and NetGalley for providing me with an eARC copy of this book.***

Contains spoilers:

Get ready for an electrifying ride with this twisty mystery! Picture this: 10 folks, all linked by a chilling mass murder from 20 years back, suddenly find themselves trapped in a remote mountain mansion. And guess what? Someone starts knocking them off, one by one! It's like a real-life game of Clue, where everyone's a suspect and trust is as rare as a unicorn!

Enter Therese Brewer, the ultimate survivor of a Memorial Day massacre that still haunts her dreams. Now rocking it as an FBI agent, she scores an invite to a mountain lodge memorial shindig with the same nine unlucky souls. But here's the kicker: the party quickly turns deadly as they drop like flies!

With more twists than a rollercoaster and enough suspense to make your heart race, this tale had me on the edge of my seat, begging for more with every page turn. Trust me, you won't be able to put it down!

Therese receives an invitation, along with several others connected to a mass killing that happened 20 years ago, to a lodge under false pretences. Murders start happening at the lodge and they need to figure out who's behind it all.

There were a lot of characters and because they didn't really have any defining or distinctive traits, I found it difficult to distinguish between them. They felt quite bland, lacking personality and I wasn't invested in any of them. This made it hard to care about the outcome of the plot.

I’m always eager to read any and all And Then There Were None-inspired books, but I’ve never read anything that was as good as the original. That is, until She Left. While it was no Agatha Christie, it was the very best modern take that I have read.

Teenage Amy is having a terrible time at a house party, so she leaves. I would have left as well. I already hate house parties.
The next we hear from her 20 years has gone by and she now a cop, or special agent or whatever and she is investigating something that happened at that party after she left. She isn't' investigating on purpose though. Someone invited her to something and I guess she didn't learn her lesson because she shows up.
And it is sketchy right away.
The story becomes a closed door mystery with ten guests all connected to that night trapped in this fancy cabin. The way I would have walked out of that place, if I had shown up at ll.
People start dying and our protagonist has to work to keep them alive, while trying to figure out who is doing this. I felt for these people, well some of them anyway.
I LOVE the ending. Love it. 5/5

Amy is the only survivor of a massacre which left her group of friends dead, twenty years later she is asked to attend a weekend getaway by a journalist with others with connections to what happened years ago. I devoured this one, wow. I felt like I was playing an old school game of Clue. I loved the who dunnit plot and the setting of the whole book. It was the perfect creepy but interesting read I've had in a long time. It was extremely fast paced and definitely kept you guessing up until the very end.

Thanks so much to the author, the publisher, and NetGalley for allowing me to review this ARC.

Who done it thriller! Will have you guessing until the very end. Honestly, it could have gone either way which was the true beauty. This could have alternative endings and I will devour them all because no one is not a suspect in my mind.

Very interestingly written. I was pulled in right away and couldn’t wait for the mystery to be solved.

Thank you to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for this ARC in exchange of an honest review.

A locked door murder mystery that will have you turing the next page ready to find out who dunnit. Amy Therese Brewer survived the “Memorial Day massacre” and now 20 years later she returns to her home town at the request of a journalist who wants to write an article. But what she finds is a group of people who has connections to all her friends who were murdered 20 years ago. Not only that but now people are dying and it is all connected to that day 20 years ago. I liked the pacing of the book. I had some issues keeping track of everyone initially and how they were all connected. The main pov is Therese but you will get POVs of the other characters here and there scattered throughout the book. Overtime of course there will be reveals on the motives the other characters could have to have committed the crime 20 years ago and in connection the crimes now. Throw in a storm that is going on right now and them not being able to leave the huge house on a cliff side. It is a classic type of murder mystery that I can binge in one sitting.. I will say I enjoyed myself overall I will definitely be giving Stacie Grey another read in the future.

Therese was the “lucky” one: she left her friends’ Memorial Day party minutes before they were killed in what became an infamous crime. But suspicion has followed her for her entire life, and now, 20 years later, she receives an invitation to a weekend getaway from a journalist looking to interview people for a new look back on the events. Therese hopes to finally set the record straight, but it quickly becomes clear that this weekend will turn out to be another fight for survival.

This book was a twisted thriller, with two interesting mysteries along the two timelines, though the book only tells the story in the present day. There’s a wide variety of characters who all have different roles/relationships to the original crime and sone big personalities. This kept things really fresh and left me feeling like anything could happen. I didn’t really know what was going to happen next or who the “bad guy” was until the reveal.

The solution was quite good. As I said, I didn’t see it coming, although you could say that all the clues were there. And both mysteries get a satisfying ending, so there’s no loose ends to tie up. I liked that after a couple books with some open endings. It was nice to just have everything tied up with a bow.

Therese was a great character and I would like to see her in her FBI role again in another book. I think that would be really cool.

If you like locked room mysteries with some good twists and interesting characters. Pick this one up.

3.5 stars - I really enjoyed the plot of this, as it is a classic isolated closed circle mystery premise. Lured to an isolated spot and then victims get got one by one. However, I felt that the character and description work was rather flat, so it read a bit like a novelization of movie rather than a story in its own right

I was given this book by NetGalley for an honest review-
20 years ago only Stacy survived a house party. Her friends were making fun of her and she left— later a bomb went off and all five friends were dead! The case was never solved. Questions about Stacy caused her and her family to move, Then 20 years later a journalist invites them to a cliff side cottage as she is looking to write a story of the murders. They quickly find out this isn’t true as guests begin to die- someone doesn’t know ant the answer found out, who?

She Left is about a girl who once escaped dying just to try to escape it again 20 years later. Therese left her friends just before they all died in an explosion on Memorial Day and the crime was unsolved. 20 years later, Therese has been living her life when she’s contact by a journalist to meet up to discuss the events from that day. When she arrived she’s greeted by others who all some connection to the victims of massacre. Throughout several days events unfold, truths are revealed, and Therese finally gets closure on one of the worst moments of her life.

I absolutely loved this book! I was hooked very early on and managed to finish the book in less than a week. It reminded me of Clue (the movie), just a darker version of Clue. It did get a tad bit slow in the middle for me, but it didn’t last very long and once I was through that section I powered through it. I had such a good time reading this book and I can’t wait for others to read it too!

This is a must read for crime/thriller/mystery/psychological thriller lovers. I don't even know where to start with this book. This is a shocking who done it crime thriller, with so many twists your head will spin. Imagine going to a party with a group of friends, you leave and someone dies. Then years later your invited to a interview but not everything goes as you think it would. Would you be able to figure out who the killer or killers are before it's too late, or are you the secret killer? Guess you better read and find out! Make sure you have some time on your hand though because it is hard to put this one down!