ONE NIGHT GONE BY TARA LASKOWSKI

PUBLISHER: Graydon House

PUB DATE: 1st October 2019

SYNOPSIS:

It was the perfect place to disappear...

One sultry summer, Maureen Haddaway arrives in the wealthy town of Opal Beach to start her life anew—to achieve her destiny. There, she finds herself lured by the promise of friendship, love, starry skies, and wild parties. But Maureen’s new life just might be too good to be true, and before the summer is up, she vanishes.

Decades later, when Allison Simpson is offered the opportunity to house-sit in Opal Beach during the off-season, it seems like the perfect chance to begin fresh after a messy divorce. But when she becomes drawn into the mysterious disappearance of a girl thirty years before, Allison realizes the gorgeous homes of Opal Beach hide dark secrets. And the truth of that long-ago summer is not even the most shocking part of all...

THOUGHTS:

In 1985, Maureen Haddaway dreams of starting her new life in Opal Beach where she develops the promise of love, friends and hopeful for an amazing life. She vanishes before her dreams come to be realized. Now in 2015, Allison Simpson also trying to start a new life after a messy divorce, house sits for a home in Opal Beach. Allison becomes drawn to the missing woman 30 years prior and start to uncover secrets. Written in two timelines, about these two women that is full of suspense and all the In 1985, Maureen Haddaway dreams of starting her new life in Opal Beach where she develops the promise of love, friends and hopeful for an amazing life. She vanishes before her dreams come to be realized. Now in 2015, Allison Simpson also trying to start a new life after a messy divorce, house sits for a home in Opal Beach. Allison becomes drawn to the missing woman 30 years prior and start to uncover secrets. Written in two timelines, about these two women that is full of suspense and all the thrills. The pacing is absolutely amazing and kept my interest going. This is a well written novel that is highly entertaining with well thought out plots and characters you will grow to love. I really enjoyed this story so much for a debut novel by Tara Laskowski. I look forward to her future works!! AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: TARA LASKOWSKI is the award-winning author of two short story collections, Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons and Bystanders, which was named a best book of 2017 by Jennifer Egan in The Guardian. Her debut novel One Night Gone was published in October 2019 by Graydon House Books. She has had stories published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Mid-American Review, and the Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, among others. Her Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine story, “States of Matter,” was selected by Amy Hempel for the 2017 Best Small Fictions anthology, and her short story “The Case of the Vanishing Professor” is a finalist for the 2019 Agatha Award. Tara was the winner of the 2010 Santa Fe Writers Project’s Literary Awards Prize, has been the editor of the popular online flash fiction journal SmokeLong Quarterly since 2010, and is a member of Sisters in Crime. She and her husband, writer Art Taylor, write the column Long Story Short at the Washington Independent Review of Books. She earned a BA in English with a minor in writing from Susquehanna University and an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University. She grew up in Pennsylvania and lives in Virginia. Follow her on Twitter, @TaraLWrites.