This is sort of understandable, because her traumatised past means she's very reserved. ❌ As in the last book, it's difficult to feel connected to Emma. I struggled to feel immersed in either the time period or the location.

The book is set in 1982 Pennsylvania, but pretty much the only thing which would date it is the prevalence of cigarette smoke and lack of mobile phones. ❌ Marney isn't great at setting the scene. Some of these are actually problems which appeared in the last book others are new. Okay, that's as much of a summary as I can do, let's dive into the many ways this book did not work for me. In the process she reunites with both Travis and Simon. She's spirited back to FBI headquarters for her own protection, and also so she can offer them insights to help catch the killer. Pittsburgh is now being terrorised by the College Killer, a man who preys on young, dark-haired white women: women who bear a resemblance to Emma. In the process, she lost contact with Travis Bell, the trainee FBI agent she had befriended.īut her past apparently isn't willing to let her go just yet. She turned down the FBI's job offer and flew home to become a normal uni student. It's three months on from the events of None Shall Sleep, when 19-year-old Emma Lewis - a former kidnapping victim who narrowly escaped a serial killer's clutches - became drawn into the web of Simon Gutmunsson, a 20-year-old serial killer. ⤅ Were it not for the INCREDIBLY STUPID actions of the heroine (and, to a lesser extent, the hero) this book would not exist.īut this gets two stars because I nonetheless managed to finish the book, although I came very close to pulling the plug on multiple occasions. Will the team be able to stop the Huxton copycat before time runs out for his next victims? But Simon is keeping secrets that could impact their entire investigation. Compelled to prevent more tragedy-even if it means putting herself in danger-Emma turns to Simon for help once again. With a copycat on the loose, Emma returns to Quantico and is thrown back into her past traumas.

When Travis and Kristin turn up evidence that points back to Daniel Huxton, the serial killer that Emma had escaped, things become more complicated. But the unit’s latest case is feeling eerily familiar and Kristin Gutmunsson-Simon Gutmunsson’s eccentric twin-reaches out to Travis to send a warning: Emma is in peril. This sequel to the New York Times bestselling None Shall Sleep is an equally electrifying, chilling thriller that brings us back into the lives of junior FBI consultants Travis Bell and Emma Lewis with a new case that may unravel everything they’ve been working for.Īfter a harrowingly close contact with juvenile sociopath Simon Gutmunsson, junior FBI consultants Emma Lewis and Travis Bell went their separate ways: Emma rejected her Quantico offer and Travis stayed to train within a new unit of the FBI Behavioral Science division.

None shall sleep by ellie marney