Wishing for Wednesday: The Storm King and Sunburn

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings to 

spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. 

These two new titles caught my eye recently and I could not help but add that to my wish list.

The Storm King by Brendan Duffy (400 pgs)

Release Date: February 6, 2018 by Ballantine Books

Haunted by dark secrets and an unsolved mystery, a young doctor returns to his isolated Adirondacks hometown in a tense, atmospheric novel in the vein of Michael Koryta and Harlan Coben.

Burying the past only gives it strength—and fury.

Nate McHale has assembled the kind of life most people would envy. After a tumultuous youth marked by his inexplicable survival of a devastating tragedy, Nate left his Adirondack hometown of Greystone Lake and never looked back. Fourteen years later, he’s become a respected New York City surgeon, devoted husband, and loving father.

Then a body is discovered deep in the forests that surround Greystone Lake.

This disturbing news finally draws Nate home. While navigating a tense landscape of secrets and suspicion, resentments and guilt, Nate reconnects with estranged friends and old enemies, and encounters strangers who seem to know impossible things about him. Haunting every moment is the Lake’s sinister history and the memory of wild, beautiful Lucy Bennett, with whom Nate is forever linked by shattering loss and youthful passion.

As a massive hurricane bears down on the Northeast, the air becomes electric, the clouds grow dark, and escalating acts of violence echo events from Nate’s own past. Without a doubt, a reckoning is coming—one that will lay bare the lies that lifelong friends have told themselves and unleash a vengeance that may consume them all. [Goodreads Summary]

Why I want to read it: Lately, I seem to be drawn to covers with water dripping down--the rain effect, I call it. That was what first caught my eye when I saw this one. Then I was drawn to the story itself--a haunting past that will no longer stay hidden.

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Sunburn by Lisa Lippman (304 pgs)

Release Date: February 20, 2018 by William Morrow

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with a superb novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse. But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable betrayals—and cold-blooded murder. 

One is playing a long game. But which one? 

They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he’s also passing through. Yet she stays and he stays—drawn to this mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. Over the course of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. Still, each holds something back from the other—dangerous, even lethal, secrets. 

Then someone dies. Was it an accident, or part of a plan? By now, Adam and Polly are so ensnared in each other’s lives and lies that neither one knows how to get away—or even if they want to. Is their love strong enough to withstand the truth, or will it ultimately destroy them? 

Something—or someone—has to give. 

Which one will it be? [Goodreads Summary]

Why I want to read it: I have enjoyed Laura Lippman's work in the past and will pick up just about any book she's written just because it has her name on it. This one sounds a bit different than her other books, but I don't think I will be able to resist it.

Do either of these sound like something you would like to read too?

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