After Her Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Joyce Maynard
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
373

After Her by Joyce Maynard Book Summary

The New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and The Good Daughters returns with a haunting novel of sisterhood, sacrifice, and suspense.

I was always looking for excitement, until I found some . . .

Summer, 1979. A dry, hot Northern California school vacation stretches before Rachel and her younger sister, Patty—the daughters of a larger-than-life, irresistibly handsome (and chronically unfaithful) detective father and the mother whose heart he broke.

When we first meet her, Patty is eleven—a gangly kid who loves basketball and dogs and would do anything for her older sister, Rachel. Rachel is obsessed with making up stories and believes she possesses the gift of knowing what's in the minds of people around her. She has visions, whether she wants to or not. Left to their own devices, the sisters spend their days studying record jackets, concocting elaborate fantasies about the mysterious neighbor who moved in down the street, and playing dangerous games on the mountain that looms behind their house.

When young women start turning up dead on the mountain, the girls' father is put in charge of finding the murderer known as the "Sunset Strangler." Watching her father's life slowly unravel as months pass and more women are killed, Rachel embarks on her most dangerous game yet . . . using herself as bait to catch the killer. But rather than cracking the case, the consequences of Rachel's actions will destroy her father's career and alter forever the lives of everyone she loves.

Thirty years later, still haunted by the belief that the killer remains at large, Rachel constructs a new strategy to smoke out the Sunset Strangler and vindicate her father—a plan that unexpectedly unearths a long-buried family secret.

Loosely inspired by the Trailside Killer case that terrorized Marin County, California, in the late 1970s, After Her is part thriller, part love story. Maynard has created a poignant, suspenseful, and painfully real family saga that traces a young girl's first explorations of sexuality, the loss of innocence, the bond shared by sisters, and the tender but damaged relationship between a girl and her father that endures even beyond the grave.

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Book Name After Her
Genre Fiction & Literature
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 1.07 MB

After Her (Joyce Maynard) Book Reviews 2024

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Loved this book. I read all her other books, too, great writer

Excellent book by an excellent author!. I recommend!

Beautiful and interesting story. I downloaded this story because of the element of the crime. But loved the story for a completely different reason, the relationship between the two sisters and the love they had for their deeply flawed father. Thank you for writing such an enjoyable and moving story. I plan to read everything you have written.

AWFUL. The story line bored me and seemed to last forever. The writing was very repetitive. I felt like if I heard one detail once, I heard it a million times throughout the unneccesarily long book. One of the worst I have come across.

Not what I expected. Too much coming of age....found myself bored after 100 pages. Skimmed through 3/4 reading first line of each paragraph, very wordy. Lived on the mountain & knew of the Mt Tam murders so I was curious enough to finish the book. Would not recommend this book.

I'm in awe. This is only the second book I've read by this author,( I'msureI'lllhave read the rest before long) I loved this book. I thought I had it figured out 150 pages in, but I was dead wrong. Ms. Maynard, you have a fan for life. Sincerely, Tim Geist

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Summary of After Her by Joyce Maynard

The After Her book written by Joyce Maynard was published on 20 August 2013, Tuesday in the Fiction & Literature category. A total of 373 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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