Layover by David Bell
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Released July 2, 2019
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In this high concept psychological suspense novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Somebody’s Daughter, a chance meeting with a woman in an airport sends a man on a
pulse-pounding quest for the truth…
Joshua Fields takes the same flights every week for work. His life is a series of departures and arrivals, hotels and airports. During yet another layover, Joshua meets Morgan, a beautiful stranger with whom he feels an immediate connection. When it’s time for their flights, Morgan gets up to leave, leans over and passionately kisses Joshua, lamenting that they’ll never see each other again.
As Morgan slips away, Joshua is left feeling confused by what just happened between them. That’s when he looks up and is shocked to see Morgan’s face flashing on a nearby TV screen. He’s even more shocked when he learns the reason why–Morgan is a missing person.
What follows is a whirlwind, fast-paced journey filled with lies, deceit, and secrets to discover the truth about why Morgan is on the run. But when he finally thinks every mystery is solved, another rears its head, and Joshua’s worst enemy may be his own assumptions about those around him…
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The concept of Layover by David Bell had me intrigued from the get to, and honestly this is going to a very difficult book to review, because SO MUCH IS HAPPENING!
First of all, I need to start out by saying these characters in Layover are lunatics, outside of the detective tasked to solving the case everyone else seems to just be bat shit crazy, and after chatting briefly with the author over on Instagram, this was his intention. He freaking NAILED that.
I was talking to a friend while reading Layover and explaining to him all of the decisions that these people were making and my word, we couldn’t decide who was crazier!! I felt latent awkwardness from these two! A man following a woman around that he met at the airport who was ‘missing’.
He had some kind of white knight complex going on thinking he could save a woman, you know a woman who was ON THE RUN! And he didn’t eve know exactly WHY She was on the run.
I loved the ride trying to figure out what happened, why and HOW! I had so many questions right up until the end of Layover. It’s such a riveting tale and like nothing else I have ever read before!
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