Following them and two other friends, Gia and Rachel, who together made up the Dead Girls Club-so named because the four of them would get together every week in an abandoned old house to share stories about true crime and serial killers-we flash back to 1991, when everything between them was still easy and carefree. In the second timeline, we find out exactly what happened to Heather and Becca that fateful summer when they were both twelve years old. Surely, no one else but Heather knows what really happened that night? Might it even be possible the perpetrator is Becca’s mother, who was convicted for murdering her daughter? The woman did recently get released from prison, after all. Unnerved, Heather tries to convince herself that it must be some sick prank. Inside the innocuous envelope is an item she knows well from her childhood: a cheap metal half-heart pendant friendship necklace which used to hang around the neck of her best friend Becca, and that was also where Heather saw it last-the day the other girl died, almost thirty years ago. But one day, she receives a mysterious package that suddenly brings all the chilling memories of her past rushing back. In the present, our protagonist Heather Cole has a successful career helping troubled teens and is happily married to the love of her life.
Like so many other novels of its kind that I’ve read lately, the story is told via dual timelines.
And I’m so glad! Thinking it was going to be your typical run-of-the-mill thriller suspense mystery, I picked up The Dead Girls Club for some reliable entertainment but discovered it to be about so much more. I know, I know, I should have read this book a long time ago, but it had fallen off my radar and only popped back on it recently when the audiobook was released. The Dead Girl’s Club by Damien Angelica Walters
This does not affect the contents of my review and all opinions are my own. I received a review copy from the publisher. Audiobook Review: The Dead Girl’s Club by Damien Angelica Walters
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