Mary KubicaPsychological Thriller · Thriller·b. 1978
It's Not Her
Synopsis
Two families — the Grays and the Cranes — meet at a run-down lake resort in Wisconsin's Northwoods for a summer getaway. Courtney Gray is there with her husband and young son; her brother Nolan, his wife Emily, and their three children are in the cabin next door.
Then Courtney walks in on an unthinkable scene: Nolan and Emily are dead. Her nephew Wyatt is asleep upstairs, unharmed. Her seventeen-year-old niece, Reese, is gone.
As police swarm the quiet resort town, the question of what happened to Reese hangs over everything — is she another victim, or the killer? The deeper the investigation goes, the more the Grays' buried secrets surface, and the more it becomes clear that the town is hiding things too.
Told through multiple points of view and shifting between the days before that night and the frantic search that follows, It's Not Her is a taut, atmospheric thriller about family, trust, and how little we sometimes know the people closest to us.
How it reads
- Writing5.0
- Impact5.0
- Characters5.0
- Plot5.0
- Atmosphere5.0
Prose complexity 4/10
Content warnings (1)
Violence
Readers say (1)Fast · Moderate · Tense · Mysterious · Dark
Readers flagged (4)
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- Holy. S•••. This book had me in an absolute chokehold. Every time I thought I’d worked it out, another twist came along and proved me wrong. The characters were so well done, the pacing was perfect, and I genuinely could not put it down. That ending though?? I was literally sitting there with my mouth open. I did not see that coming.
- tight ending, but a drag to get there