Print Length: 339 pages
Publisher: Joffe Books (April 10, 2025)
From Goodreads.com: Jillian thought she knew her husband. They’ve been married for twenty years. But she doesn’t know him at all.
Jillian Harper thought moving to the quiet little town in Montana would be the fresh start her family needed. A charming farmhouse, friendly neighbors, and endless open fields — it was supposed to be perfect.
Until the bodies are found.
Buried deep on their land. Hidden for years.
The police are everywhere. The town is whispering. And Tucker — her devoted husband — is acting . . . strange. He won’t tell her where he was all day. He won’t explain why his phone was off. And worst of all — he won’t meet her eyes.
Jillian knows Tucker is lying. She just doesn’t know why.
But the truth is far worse than she imagined. Because someone left those bodies there. Maybe the real monster isn’t lurking out there in the fields . . . Maybe he’s sleeping in her bed.
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My Rating: 3 stars out of 5
Told through multiple points of view (four to be exact), The Girls in the Basement was a straightforward novel with a few twists and turns (although to be honest most of them felt fairly obvious to me).
However, I found the title to be a little odd as there weren't really any girls mentioned as being in the basement. I feel like the book may have been better off being titled The Red House, or even The Taken Girls or something like that as this book did touch on sex-trafficking rings (although thankfully without going into any real detail). I also wish that Jillian would have stood up for herself more. She tries to get answers out of her husband, but allows him to walk away without giving her any, or speaking in riddles that just leave her more confused than before. And I'm sorry, but I lost all respect for her when she found *spoiler* in the attic and allowed her husband to talk her out of taking that information to the police. Seriously?
And man that ending was so abrupt that I was left feeling let down. After everything we get no final heart-felt conversation between Jillian and her husband? No reunion for Meri? No update on what happened to Tucker's parents? And what about poor Becky? The last time we saw her she was in a very precarious position, was it not worth it for the author to give us closure for her? These are all details that I would have liked to have seen cleared up.
That being said, I enjoyed this one enough that I am looking forward to reading more from this author.
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