Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released.
The Bones of the Story by Carol Goodman
Thriller
eBook, Paperback, Audiobook, 336 pages
July 11, 2023 by William Morrow
Blurb:
The twisty locked-room mystery from two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author Carol Goodman, about a group of former classmates trapped on their college campus—with a murderer among them.
It’s been twenty-five years since the shocking disappearance of a female student and the distinguished Creative Writing professor who died while searching for her. The Briarwood College community has never forgotten the terrible storm that caused the double tragedy. Now, the college President—who has his own reasons for drawing attention to the notorious incident—is bringing together faculty, donors, and alumni to honor the victims from all those years ago.
On a cold December weekend after the fall semester has ended, guests gather on the vacant campus for the commemoratory event. But as a winter storm descends, people begin to depart, leaving a group of alumni who were the last ones taught by the esteemed professor. Recriminations and old rivalries flare as they recall the writing projects they shared as classmates, including chilling horror stories they each wrote about their greatest fears.
When an alumna dies in a shockingly similar way to the story she wrote, and then another succumbs to a similar fate, they realize someone has decided at long last to avenge the crimes of the past. Will the secret of what they did twenty-five years ago be revealed? Will any of them be alive at the end of the weekend to find out?
Why I Want to Read The Bones of the Story:
Say it with me friends: Locked. Door. Mystery. My favorite thriller trope. I’ve read one other book by Carol Goodman, The Sea of Lost Girls, and enjoyed it. I like that this one is another book set at a college, another favorite of mine (books set in universities or boarding schools).
Will you be checking this one out? What upcoming releases are you looking forward to?
Taylor Fenner's Bookish World 
This sounds like an eerie, suspenseful one. Enjoy it!
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A cracking locked room mystery takes a lot of beating – I hope you enjoy this one, Taylor:)).
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