Broken Bayou by Jennifer Moorhead is a fast paced thriller about a woman who comes back to confront her past and ends up in the midst of the investigation into a serial killer.

This is a debut novel and I will definitely be looking forward to future books by Jennifer Moorhead. Good beach read with several unexpected twists!

This was a really good book. I enjoyed it very much from the very first page to the very last page. I recommended to all fiction lovers.

Broken Bayou
Jennifer Moorhead

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One of my favorite things is to read a book that is set where I am. South Louisiana is so distinct it really could be a trope of its own, but Southern Gothic fits perfectly. The bayous, steamy days and nights, and all the lore that surrounds it make for a perfect thriller and this one did not disappoint. A serial killer is not something new here, Derrick Todd Lee and all the bodies that show up on the I10 corridor along the Atchafalaya Basin, help Broken Bayou fit in as a realistic piece of fiction.
I enjoyed this one. The premise was intriguing and the flawed characters were interesting. I did figure out who the killer was but I was still invested. Check this one out!

This is a great debut novel for this author! It was exciting from the very first page. So many twists & turns.

A serial murderer is on the loose and the FMC is at the center of it due to some mistakes made in her own life.

There were so many times I thought the murderer was one person, then I would think it was another, then go back to my first guess. There were so many well written characters in this book.

This book also had me fully creeped out and my adrenaline pumping at points worried about what was going to happen. While I find a lot of thrillers interesting, not all thrillers can have that effect where you are actually scared. That shows how well this one was written.

I can’t wait to see what this author writes next.

This was a brilliant debut novel. The book was set in small bayou town in Louisiana and draws the reader into the dynamics of that from the very start. The main character is a disgraced child psychologist who returns to the the small town of her deceased aunts to tie up some loose ends whilst being dragged into an open serial murder investigation.
It's cosy in the way you expect from a small town thriller, with colourful locals and a great plot to match. I will definitely be looking out for more from this author.

Broken Bayou is author Jennifer Moorhead’s debut thriller. Protagonist Willa Watters, a child psychologist with a new book to promote, throws herself off the deep end during her first major television interview about the book. To escape the blowback, she returns to Broken Bayou, Louisiana where she spent many summers with her mother and sister in the home of a pair of now-dead aunts. Ostensibly, Watters is collecting a bunch of her mother’s memorabilia left the the aunts’ attic.

While there, as a drought drains the bayou, local police are finding oil barrels filled with the remains of women, the work of a serial killer. Almost daily, either barrels or old sunken vehicles are dredged up. Watters finds her past is dredged up as well.

The prose here is taut. Suspense and malevolence ooze from every page. Every time I thought I figured out whodunnit, Wham! Another suspect pops up. An amazing tense debut.