Some places are too good to be true.
Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map.
In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things.
After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different.
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[Even though it is a fairly cool night, Norris is sweating abundantly]***
(Orbit, 12 February 2013, ebook, 673 pages, bought from Amazon, Popsugar 2018 Reading Challenge, a book recommended by someone else taking the Popsugar Reading Challenge)
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I loved the author's book Mr Shivers so was really looking forward to American Elsewhere. I first heard about the book when browsing the Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge group forum on Good Reads and knew I had to read it. I loved the concept of the book. The book opens with intrigue with Mona trying to find Wink, the town she's never heard of and can't trace, a place where she's supposed to have inherited a house, left by her mother who committed suicide. Why is Wink so difficult to find? Why so secretive? I enjoyed reading about Mona settling in Wink and getting to know the locals while trying to find out about her mother, who worked in a nearby lab but no locals have heard of. Mona gradually learns the truth about Wink. I never saw it coming and it blew me away. I would have loved American Elsewhere but the truth about Wink disappointed me just a smudge. Still, this is a cracking, highly original book.
