The Night Swim by Megan Goldin

The Night Swim by Megan Goldin | Expected publication: August 4th 2020 by St. Martin’s Press|  352 Pages | Goodreads

✅ REVIEW

This novel follows the trial about the rape of a sixteen-years old girl. The accused is a young athlete and son of a well-known local business man.

The novel is narrated by Rachel Krall, the producer of a popular crime podcast. She visits the town where the trial is taking place to produce a series of podcast about the case.

While in town, she starts receiving letters from Hannah, who believes her sister Jenny was murdered 25 years ago in the same town but that her crime was never investigated.

This novel was very different from the author’s previous novel The Escape Room (which I loved). While the previous novel was a fast-paced, entertaining thriller, this book was more of an exploration of the legal and emotional consequences of rape in the victims and their family’s lives as well as those of the accused.

The novel is well written and the characters are compelling, I liked it and recommend it but it was not an easy read.

ARC provided by Publisher via Netgalley

✅ PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTION

“In this new thriller from the author of The Escape Room, a podcast host covering a controversial trial in a small town becomes obsessed with a brutal crime that took place there years before.

After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name―and the last hope for thousands of people seeking justice. But she’s used to being recognized for her voice, not her face. Which makes it all the more unsettling when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging for help.

The small town of Neapolis is being torn apart by a devastating rape trial. The town’s golden boy, a swimmer destined for Olympic greatness, has been accused of raping a high school student, the beloved granddaughter of the police chief. Under pressure to make Season Three a success, Rachel throws herself into interviewing and investigating―but the mysterious letters keep showing up in unexpected places. Someone is following her, and she won’t stop until Rachel finds out what happened to her sister twenty-five years ago. Officially, Jenny Stills tragically drowned, but the letters insists she was murdered―and when Rachel starts asking questions, nobody seems to want to answer. The past and present start to collide as Rachel uncovers startling connections between the two cases that will change the course of the trial and the lives of everyone involved.

Electrifying and propulsive, The Night Swim asks: What is the price of a reputation? Can a small town ever right the wrongs of its past? And what really happened to Jenny?”

✅ BOOK SOURCE AND FORMAT

Arc, eBook