Wonderland

This one is a little bit scary! Jennifer Hillier is one of those authors I auto-preorder. Her thrillers are just so good! This one scared me a lot, probably because I find amusement parks (and clowns!) to be scary. It’s set at Wonderland, an aging (but charming, in a retro sort of way) amusement park in the Pacific Northwest. The park has dark secrets. Its CEO has a penchant for younger boys, a dead body has just turned up below the ferris wheel, and several workers have gone missing over the past few years. Vanessa Castro is the new deputy police chief of the town, and her first day is a banger (when they find the dead body and a teenage boy goes missing). She’s moved to Seaside with her children to escape her own scandalous past, but quickly realizes this town has secrets: lots of them. Can she figure out what has happened before it’s too late and more employees go missing? I couldn’t put it down!