I read this book in one sitting I was so hooked. The story is mesmerising and the characters well balanced. You feel for the main character and experience with her the effect of a dislocated mind. The red herrings are well handled and the end doesn't disappoint. Such a satisfying read. Can't wait to read the next one by this author. A real discovery.

The Girl from Widow Hills is a great story of a girl named Arden Maynor, who changed her name to Olivia after an accident late at night during a storm left her missing for three days at just six years old.

When I started reading this book I intended on reading a few chapters and then going to sleep; this did not happen. I finished the entire book in one sitting, staying up way into the early hours of the morning because I just could not put it down. Countless twists and turns in this book had my heart racing, every time I thought I solved the case something else was thrown into the mix to prove me wrong. It was not just all of these twists that kept me so captivated by this book, the way it was written was incredible. I loved how included throughout the book were details about the three days Olivia was missing, with things such as police reports, transcripts and interviews from people around Widow Hills giving you more insight into what happened over those three days from a different perspective as Olivia herself is uncovering the events for herself.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Atlantic Books for the chance to read this ARC.

A really great story keeping you questioning everyone throughout the story, no one seems to be what they say they are and who is telling the truth...

I never repeat the blurb - even if I did, it would not be worthwhile here, since it read well but the book was just dire (sorry, my opinion) and I didn't even bother to get beyond about 20%. Disjointed, lacking in characterisation and banal. One star is generous.

I found The Girl from Widow Hills to be quite a good read. It was compelling in that it kept you turning the pages, eager to find out what became of her. It is fast paced, there is a level of unreliability to the narrator, and there is underlying menace in parts of this story. While I did enjoy it, I found it to be a bit predictable in parts. Still though, if you’re a thriller fan, I think you’ll enjoy this one.

I enjoyed this story about the impact of the past on the present. A traumatic event happened to the main character when she was a child and she spends her life trying to move on from it.
She has huge trust issues and has difficulty engaging with people in her social circle.
It took me a while to get into the story finding some of her reminiscing is confusing but it became fascinating to discover what really happened.
The twist at the end is revealing and surprising.
Recommended.

I loved this book from the first page. the story is so unique and interesting, I had never read a thriller from the viewpoint of a woman who went missing as a child, and a change of identity is one of my favourite things in a thriller. The main character Olivia was really easy to warm towards, and root for. Throughout it all, I was kept on the hooks, reading page after page, because I wanted to see the best outcome for her, The ending was perfect, with a precise mix of surprise but not unbelievable. I loved this book!

This book is seriously good. The location and characters are written in such a way that they create the perfect chilling atmosphere and you end up not trusting anyone. It starts at a slow pace but the story and characters steadily build up over the course of the book into an addictive read you won’t be able to put down. As for the ending you’ll just have to find out for yourself but you’ll be blown away. One of the best endings I’ve read for a while. A five star psychological thriller.

You jump straight in knowing that there was an incident twenty years ago when Arden went missing. It is now the twentieth anniversary of her rescue. Arden who is now known as Olivia is living a completely different live miles away. This story draws you in straight away and you can’t help feeling that there is a lot more to this story than meets the eye. What really happened to Arden all those years ago? And what is happening to her now?

The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda is one of the best books I have read this year. Great pace, lots of twists and mysteries and a host of fabulous characters. I really had no idea what was going on until the end. What an intriguing backstory and lots of possibilities when it comes to truth and motive. Definitely a five star read. Can’t recommend enough

Overall I found this a bit too slow,though the last part picked up pace a bit.
I felt it ticked all the right boxes,but didn't really have anything that stood out from other books of this kind.

As a six year old child, Arden was swept away in a storm and was missing for days. She was eventually rescued and her mother gained fame from the story when she released a book. Tired of the fame, Arden eventually moved away from Widow Hills and renamed herself Olivia. Years later, the twentieth anniversary of the rescue looms and the stress causes Olivia to sleepwalk. One nights, she wakes to find herself outside with a corpse at the feet... Did she do this or is someone else responsible...?

A thrilling story full of twists and turns, and a variety of intriguing and suspicious characters, a good read overall. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy of the book in return for my honest feedback.

One stormy night, six-year-old Arden Maynor, sleepwalks out of her house and isn’t seen again for days. Her single mother Laurel is distraught, but ecstatic when she is discovered alive in a storm drain by a passer-by called Sean Coleman. Sadly, Laurel and Arden’s lives are altered forever by the media who crave anniversary updates in a frenzy of interest and sensationalism. Arden has no memory of what happened and refuses to attend the interviews. In the interim they are plagued by stalkers, fans and weirdoes, eventually forcing Arden to leave Widow Hills, Kentucky and reinvent her life in Central Valley, South Carolina.
One night, nearing the 20th anniversary of her recovery, Liv is sleepwalking and hears a telephone ringing out. She follows the tone and trips over something. She wakes up caked in dirt and blood. Scared stiff she runs off to alert her only neighbour, who checks it out and phones for help. Later on they discover the corpse belongs to Sean Coleman, her rescuer. A murder squad investigates as Olivia’s life is once again turned-up-side-down.
The following investigation is intriguing, fast-paced and addictive with lots of twists and turns, red herrings and blind alleyways. The story is beautifully woven and the well-crafted and eclectic cast of characters skilfully move on the action at a cracking pace. With issues of stalking, deception, outright lies and manipulation, this novel is one to read if your preference is for meaty and engrossing psychological thrillers. I really enjoyed reading it.
I received this paperback book through my membership of LoveReading from publisher Corvus, sent in return for an honest review. I also received an e-copy through my membership of NetGalley. Thank you for these copies sent in return for an honest review. I have read no other reviews, and my review motive is to recommend and to introduce as many readers as I can to new authors as well as my own favourites. I had never read any of Megan’s novels before and was glad to see that she has a good back catalogue for me to read.

This was brilliant, a slow burn that ramped up. I was convinced several characters were the troublemaker when they were not!

It’s been a very long time since I’ve read a book until late at night, refusing to go to sleep because I needed to finish it and see the things finally unravel. This was my second Megan Miranda book and it took me completely off guard.

Somehow Megan Miranda created an engaging, intoxicating read that is impossible to put down. «The Girl from Widow Hills» doesn’t add anything new to thriller themes I’ve read before. [I’ve probably read too many thrillers and nothing can surprise me anymore]. However, it didn’t really matter because of the way it was written.

Yes, there were some twists that I predicted and there were twists that took me completely by surprise. But that wasn’t the strength of this book. Megan Miranda didn’t rely on twists to keep her readers at the edge of the seat, she relied on her writing, on creating strong emotions - fear, anger, confusion, that were able to escape the pages of the book right into the readers’ minds.

I honestly don’t remember the last time a book made me jumpy or the last time I was so engrossed in the story my own pulse went wild from the fictional events.

I can feel that this will be the book to vote for in Goodreads Choice Awards this year. This is my prediction, guys and I hope I’m right. I hope more people read and love it just as much as I did. Megan Miranda might become one of my favorite authors, and I’m definitely going to pick up more of her books in the future.

Thank you to Netgalley and Atlantic Books for this advanced reader's copy in return for my honest review. I loved last summer's The Last House Guest so I was delighted to have the opportunity to read this summer's thriller. This one will definitely be another big hit. A psychological whodunnit filled with twists. Read this over the weekend and couldn't put it down.

I would like to thank Netgalley and Atlantic Books for an advance copy of The Girl from Widow Hills, a stand-alone thriller set in the fictional town of Central Valley, South Carolina.

Olivia has changed her name and moved to Central Valley to escape her past because twenty years ago Olivia was Arden, the eponymous girl from Widow Hills, Kentucky who was missing for three days and was found in a storm drain. Now it seems Arden will be the story again when, sleepwalking, she stumbles over a dead body in her backyard.

I thoroughly enjoyed The Girl from Widow Hills which is a slow burning but compulsive thriller that mingles past events with present developments into a satisfying whole. No, it’s not entirely plausible but it’s told by Liv in the first person in such an enraging way that plausibility doesn’t matter. I liked the format, Liv’s narrative interspersed with snippets from events, like 911 calls, her mother’s book and newspaper articles.it puts her experiences in context and generally suggests that her narrative is reliable and true, insofar as she remembers. I think the conclusion is clever and I didn’t see it coming, but I was so caught up in the story that I didn’t have room to think about where it was going or who was doing what.

I really liked the overarching theme of the novel, the perniciousness of fame. Liv didn’t ask to be the girl from Widow Hills and has sought to avoid the limelight ever since but it seems that the public think they know her and everyone else wants a piece of her. It made me think and illustrated things I’d never thought of and it’s all just woven into the fabric of the novel. More cleverness.

I felt heart sorry for Liv. She’s a lonely person, holding herself and her secrets close and there’s reasons for that but it damages her friendships. I’m not sure that she fully understands what is happening to her in the present and she has no memory of what happened in the storm drain so she wanders about in a fog, a relatively clear sighted fog but still a fog. It’s fascinating.

The Girl from Widow Hills is a good read that I have no hesitation in recommending.

The Girl from Widow Hills is an incredible tale of Olivia who found fame as a child in a tragic accident.

I don’t think I can say much more without giving away parts of the plot. I must admit when I first started reading I thought this was a low star book. I found everything was obvious. It’s NOT! Stick with this and you will not regret.

Summer hit!

WOW. What a story. A thrilling 'whodunnit' with psychological twists, an underbelly of tales, mystery, lies, murder, and many suspicious characters both past and present. A thrilling cautionary tale that in a world of crazed media frenzy, book deals and national stories; your past may never leave you, no matter how you try to leave that chapter of your life behind.

Thank you to Atlantic Books and Netgalley for my free advanced reading copy of this book. My opinions within this review are entirely my own and not in anyway influenced by my gifting of this book.

Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher. This was an okay read, okay storyline, okay characters and cannot say any more

Arden went missing from home when she was six years old and was found days later holding onto a storm drain. She became famous for this incident and her mother wrote a book about her misadventure.
Years later because of all the publicity she now lives under a different name and tries to keep her identity a secret.
Unfortunately she has always has been a sleepwalker and this will lead her into more trouble.
A slow moving story that failed to hold my interest.
Thank you to NetGalley and Atlantic Books for my e-copy in exchange for an honest review.