Such a Quiet Place

A Novel

By: Megan Miranda

Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Last House Guest - a Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection - comes a riveting, “suspenseful” (BookPage, starred review) novel about a mysterious murder in an idyllic and close-knit neighborhood.

Welcome to Hollow’s Edge, where you can find secrets, scandal, and a suspected killer - all on one street.

Hollow’s Edge use to be a quiet place. A private and idyllic neighborhood where neighbors dropped in on neighbors, celebrated graduation and holiday parties together, and looked out for one another. But then came the murder of Brandon and Fiona Truett. A year and a half later, Hollow’s Edge is simmering. The residents are trapped, unable to sell their homes, confronted daily by the empty Truett house, and suffocated by their trial testimonies that implicated one of their own. Ruby Fletcher. And now, Ruby’s back.

With her conviction overturned, Ruby waltzes right back to Hollow’s Edge, and into the home she shared with Harper Nash. Harper, five years older, has always treated Ruby like a wayward younger sister. But now she’s terrified. What possible good could come of Ruby returning to the scene of the crime? And how can she possibly turn her away, when she knows Ruby has nowhere to go?

Within days, suspicion spreads like a virus across Hollow’s Edge. It’s increasingly clear that not everyone told the truth about the night of the Truetts’ murders. And when Harper begins receiving threatening notes, she realizes she has to uncover the truth before someone else becomes the killer’s next victim.

Pulsating with suspense and with Megan Miranda’s trademark shocking twists, Such a Quiet Place is Megan Miranda’s best novel yet - a “powerful, paranoid thriller” (Booklist, starred review) that will keep you turning the pages late into the night.

©2021 Megan Miranda. All rights reserved. (P)2021 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

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A close Neighborhood finds a couple dead in their bed. A neighbor is convicted of their murder by porch cameras and eyewitnesses. But did she really do it? Her case was thrown out and now she decided to move back to her old neighborhood and into her old house she shared with her friend. What secrets lie in this close knit group?
I just keep hoping her books would be as good as hed first. they arent but they're pretty good. I always hate her protagonists but I respect that she is consistent in her characters. this book wasn't a huge surprise. story was easy to read and then know what happened within first 3rd of book. but still fun to finish. I'd love to see these become little TV movies.

Not Miranda's Best Work

I have obsessively consumed Megan Miranda's novels in audiobook form for the past few years and this one fell short of my expectations. The characters (except Ruby) all felt un-inspired. The town of Hollow's Edge did not have the same charm as most of the small towns she crafts do. It felt under-developed. The plot overall and each "twist" fell flat. I was not intrigued but I kept listening because, as always, the narrator Rebekah Ross gave an excellent performance. In fact, I was waiting for the big climax to happen, only to realize that I was in the middle of it. It was so uneventful that I was waiting for something more to happen. Maybe my expectations were too high based on Miranda's other works.

If you're looking for a more impactful, exciting thriller/mystery by this same author, read The Perfect Stranger (personal favorite) or The Last House Guest (also great).

Great original story

It’s so hard to find an original storyline - and this one has that and is interesting until the very end !

Meh

The book was ok overall. Not Megan Miranda’s best. There was a little bit of a twist about half way though and I thought it was going to get good. Not so much.

Wow Great Story

Wow, this was a great book. Ruby who comes back to a town where everyone took part in getting her convicted causes nothing but trouble in the quiet town. Everyone has something to hide, what will they do to keep it hidden.
The end of course all things come to light, but it's a rough ride getting there.
I highly recommend reading this book.

What a Great Book

This was an excellent intriguing book to read. It kept you in suspense until the very end. I recommend it highly.

Hate the narrator

The story is dragging and the narrator is awful. I usually live all of Megan’s books but nit living this one so far.

It was just Ok

This was a fair book. There was good tension and a bit of a swerve where someone dies.
My problem is that I’ve read so many books like it it’s nothing new. This is not really a criticism but just fact. I would recommend it to those who like standard fare but not for thriller lovers or deep mystery fare.
Enjoyable but forgettable as well

I Wanted More

This author definitely knows how to weave complex details for every character throughout her stories, making the reader constantly second guess their theories as they progress further into the book. In addition to the detail, I wish this one had been a little more exciting than what it was.

Watch out for the ending

I truly didn't like the ending, I felt like the author needed to explain a lot.