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(Fictional) True Crime Dual Timeline

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

February 14, 2025 by dreadpiratekel Leave a Comment

Split between Fell New York, 1982 and Fell New York, 2017 the story follows two women (Viv in 1982 and Carly, Viv’s niece in 2017).  Viv goes missing in 1982, leaving Carly, the niece she never knew with a family mystery on her hands.  Carly goes to Fell in search of her aunt and takes a job working at the same Motel (the Sun Down Motel of the title) her aunt was at before she vanished.  She ends up working the same shift her aunt […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: ghosts, haunted motel, Simone St. James, split timeline, the sun down motel

dreadpiratekel's CBR17 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery · Tags: ghosts, haunted motel, Simone St. James, split timeline, the sun down motel ·
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Night Owls

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

April 13, 2020 by Jake 1 Comment

Years ago, I worked a late night shift at a security desk. The human body is simply not built for such work. Try as I might, I never really adjusted. I kept hearing noises and thinking there was a looming presence nearby. I gave my ghosts names. I learned to lean into the creepiness, even though I thought disaster was looming at every turn. It’s the typical paranoia induced by a lack of sleep and company. Night shift fiction often takes me back to those […]

Filed Under: Horror, Mystery Tagged With: horror, mystery, Simone St. James, the sun down motel

Jake's CBR12 Review No:65 · Genres: Horror, Mystery · Tags: horror, mystery, Simone St. James, the sun down motel ·
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A ghost story, almost-horror-novel-but-not, for people who don’t really like ghost stories or horror. And people who do!

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

January 17, 2020 by narfna 7 Comments

I don’t normally do ghost stories, but I recently joined Book of the Month, and this was the only one of January’s books that seemed like something I might really like, so I ordered it. Plus it was also being touted as a mystery and a thriller, it fit well with my January theme of reading books by and about badass ladies (double check on that here) and with my run of books about shitty men doing bad things to women and girls. Also it’s […]

Filed Under: Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: book of the month, crime thriller, ghost story, narfna, Simone St. James, supernatural, Suspense, the sun down motel, thriller

narfna's CBR12 Review No:10 · Genres: Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: book of the month, crime thriller, ghost story, narfna, Simone St. James, supernatural, Suspense, the sun down motel, thriller ·
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