The Last Cabin Girl (Detective Josie Thompson Series) by Tom Swyers – Review by Susan Ratchford

The Last Cabin Girl: A totally gripping thriller full of twists by Tom Swyers
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Last Cabin Girl
By; Tom Swyers
Review by: Susan Ratchford
4 Stars

After finally escaping her abusive husband Eddie, Josie starts to feel that she and her two children can be safe staying in her parents’ old cabin, due to Eddie’s superstitions. As a single mom working as a waitress she strives to move them all out of her small hometown where everyone is hiding something and nothing is the way that it seems. With the looming fear of Covid 19 and the pandemic that only Josie seems concerned about, and the Pink Ladies (murder victims) floating offshore by her cabin that keep popping up, it doesn’t seem that she and her children will be going anywhere. Especially when the FBI think she is a serial killer and charge her with one of the murders. Can Josie rely on anyone’s help? Her family that has kept a dark secret from her all her life? Or the town that has mocked her since childhood? Will Josie be able to clear her name, or will she forever be separated from her children by a life sentence?
I need more!!! This book had me transfixed from the first page to the last! It was gripping and riveting with the perfect amount of twists, turns and real world aspects that make you never want to put it down! Josie is a wonderfully strong protagonist who goes through so much in just the first few pages. I felt really emotionally connected to her character and how the town viewed her. I really appreciated the setting of Upstate New York, being from the area it was so easy to picture the beautiful landscapes Swyers wrote of, and the river I grew up next to. It made it feel all the more real to me. I’ll admit it was strange reading about Covid 19 and the start of the pandemic through the eyes of Josie, and Swyers, it almost feels like something that should have only happened in a book and not what we have been going through the past few years, it really put things in a new perspective. I thoroughly enjoyed it!!! I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a really great read!

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