TWENTY-SEVEN MINUTES BY ASHLEY TATE

Twenty-Seven Minutes is a slow burn mystery/drama novel about coping with tragedy, living with deep seated regret, and finding out the truth. I’ll admit, I went into it thinking it would be a twisted thriller and while there is a good twist at the end, it’s not a thriller in any way.

Rating: ★★★
​Release Date: January 30, 2024
Genre: Mystery
Series: None. 
Pages: 377
Format: Paperback Source: Poisoned Pen Press

Phoebe Dean was the most popular girl alive and dead.

For the last ten years, the small, claustrophobic town of West Wilmer has been struggling to understand one thing: Why did it take young Grant Dean twenty-seven minutes to call for help on the fateful night of the car accident that took the life of his beloved sister, Phoebe?

Someone knows what really happened the night Phoebe died. Someone who is ready to tell the truth.

With Phoebe's memorial in just three days, grief, delusion, ambition, and regret tornado together with biting gossip in a town full of people obsessed with a long-gone tragedy with four people​

at its heart—the caretaker, the secret girlfriend, the missing bad boy, and a former football star. Just kids back then, are forever tied together the fateful rainy night Phoebe died. 
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Perfect for fans of Jane Harper and Celeste Ng, Tate's literary suspense Twenty-Seven Minutes is a gripping debut about what happens when grief becomes unbearable and dark secrets are unearthed in a hometown that is all too giddy to eat it up. ​

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Twenty-Seven Minutes is a slow burn mystery/drama novel about coping with tragedy, living with deep seated regret, and finding out the truth. I’ll admit, I went into it thinking it would be a twisted thriller and while there is a good twist at the end, it’s not a thriller in any way. Sure, there’s a mystery, that’s what the entire story is centered around (what happened in those 27 minutes that it took for the victim’s brother to call the police) but I think the mystery takes a back seat to these characters mental health. Normally I love books like this, but I feel like I need to be prepared for them. I don’t always want to read books that deal with tragedy at its core, and I felt like that was THIS book. Despite it all, this is a well written novel and the fact that the author included multiple POV’s and a decent twist made it interesting enough to read it from beginning to end.

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