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The Trail | M. A. Hunter

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In 1993, Jess's mother, Nora, enrolled on a charity hike to walk a stage of the Appalachian Trail in the US. Nora never returned from the hike & Jess & her father were left without answers as to what had happened, just that she had disappeared from camp. Thirty years later, Jess (now an investigative reporter) receives an email with a link to a headline saying that a body has been found just off the trail - has her mother has been found at last.

OutsmartYourShelf I love reading books about walking trails or climbing mountains, fiction or nonfiction, so this looked like an intriguing read & it was for most of it. There are dual timeline narratives, past from Nora & present from Jess, where the reader gradually learns a little more each chapter. |The author builds up the ominous atmosphere in both narratives quite well & the tension was great for about two-thirds of the book 13mo

OutsmartYourShelf - then it went off the rails a little in the last third & became rather unbelievable.
3.5🌟

TW: a couple of short mentions of animal cruelty/death.

My thanks to #NetGalley & publishers, Boldwood Books, for the opportunity to read an ARC.

Full Review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5761905920
Read 20th-25th Sept 2023

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The Trail | M. A. Hunter

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This one is creepy good! Jess is a journalist whose mother, Nora went missing on the Appalachian Trail 30 years ago. Now she‘s determined to find answers. But the answers she finds aren‘t exactly what she‘s searching for and involve all sorts of witchcraft, superstitions, and ghosts of the past! Love his novels!
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