The Locked Ward by Sara Pekkanen (2025)
Leave it to an excellent crafter of thrillers like Sarah Pekkanen to take sibling rivalry to all new strange and murderous levels.
Wedding planner Georgia finds herself incarcerated in a locked psychiatric ward, awaiting her evaluation to see if she's competent to stand trial for the murder of her younger sister Annabelle. Georgia, first adopted by a wealthy influential family, soon became the unwanted excess baggage child after her adopted parents greeted the unexpected birth of their biological child Annabelle. Ignored by her father and scorned by her imperious mother, Georgia earned a reputation of physically abusing Annabelle at every opportunity all through their childhoods.
Which means things don't look too good for Georgia after she's found kneeling over Annabelle's bludgeoned, dead body......
So who can she turn to for help except Mandy, Georgia's long lost real twin sister. A not quite identical twin, Mandy's, a bar owner who'd ended up adopted by an entirely different family when the twins were separated for who knows what reason. Well, somebody knows for sure and that's the heart of the tortured path these sisters must take to arrive at the truth.
And that's all Sarah Pekkanen needs to go off and running with swiftly paced chapters, sharply defined characters, startling twists and a constant threat of danger hovering over both sisters. from a person or persons unknown. The stakes are high as Georgia fends off potential harm from within the hospital's confines while Mandy unravels mysteries swirling around Georgia, Annabell, their family......and even Mandy's adopted parents as well.
I can't get enough thrillers that keep me spinning through pages late into the night and this one delivers. Suspense, big reveals and an extra nasty stinger for the final pages. Well done and always looking forward to this author's next book.
4 Stars (****)
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