About 20 years ago it was the site of a family’s murder the 12-year-old daughter was injured, her best friend and her teenage brother disappeared that night. She avoids contact with the residents of the small “agriculturally centered” town, going into Burden only for supplies. She’s retreated to a remote farmhouse that has “only the basics - electricity and water,” but no WiFi, no television, no cell phone to distract her. True-crime writer Wylie Lark has traveled from her Oregon home, leaving her 14-year-old son with her ex-husband, to Burden, Iowa, to try to finish her fourth book. Gudenkauf doesn’t miss a beat as her ninth terrifying mystery moves at a vigorous brisk pace. “The Overnight Guest” works as a regional mystery, a psychological thriller, a solid police procedural and, in a broad sense, a locked room story. Heather Gudenkauf’s new novel is “The Overnight Guest.”
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