My second book by Liz Moore and I was very satisfied by this read! Long Bright River is urban and gritty - think Mare of Easttown - and The God of the Woods is its rural counterpart. This one is set at a summer camp in the Adirondacks in the 1970s and led by several varied and interesting women.

The dual disappearances of Barbara and, a decade earlier, her older brother Bear plus a huge cast of suspicious side characters gave more than your average thriller's worth of opportunities to scheme up whodunnit theories. Deffinitely glad I buddy read this!

It wasn't all cheap thrills, though. I'd say the pace is medium, with slower chapters spent on Barbara and Bear's mom Alice and her complicated relationship with their father. That said, you can tell that every sentence in the book is deliberate, polished, and pulling its weight.

Really solid read overall, especially for summer thriller season (I say this as it's 50 degrees and winter down here, ha)

It's been a while since I have done a food pairing! Let's go with camp dining hall classics: sloppy joes, carrot sticks,and rice crispie treats.