Saturday Review: “The Things We Feared” a review by Wendy Tilley in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Megan Miranda’s novel, Such a Quiet Place (2021)
One night, in the small town of Lake Hollow, Virginia, the double murder of Brandon and Fiona Truett occurred, and Ruby Fletcher, their twenty-four-year-old neighbor and occasional dog sitter, was tried and convicted. But, only fourteen months after her imprisonment, the investigation was found to be corrupt and Ruby is released. “And that is when the novel begins – with Harper Nash, the novel’s first-person narrator, processing the news that Ruby, her once best friend and housemate, turned convicted murderer has been freed.”
Tilley writes, “With a book focused on solving the little and big mysteries of Ruby and Harper, to go any farther with this plot summary would be to rob the reader of what is most compelling about this mystery: the plot. To be sure, there are themes wrestled with in the book – the amorality of ‘being polite,’ the compromises we make to fit in and what they cost us, the personal animus that can take root in small communities – but for the most part, this is an entertaining murder mystery, a ‘beach read,’ and a good one.”
Read the entire review here in NCLR Online Spring 2025. And order the book from the publisher.
