Black-Eyed Susans - Julia Heaberlin

Title: Black-Eyed Susans
Author: Julia Heaberlin
Genre: Suspense
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 380
Date read: March, 2018

A girl's memory lost in a field of wildflowers.
A killer still spreading seeds.

At seventeen, Tessa became famous for being the only surviving victim of a vicious serial killer. Her testimony put him on death row. Decades later, a mother herself, she receives a message from a monster who should be in prison. Now, as the execution date rapidly approaches, Tessa is forced to confront a chilling possibility: Did she help convict the wrong man?


Hard book to rate. It kept me nicely entertained as I was reading it, despite the writing style taking some getting used to (as it kept jumping between the past and the present), but I felt it had some serious plot holes along the way, which made the end oddly unsatisfying. All characters seemed to have ulterior motives, and the only one I really liked was Charlie.

It's a book that keeps you at an arm's length, somehow. You're never allowed to fully disappear into it. I didn't find it a waste of time, but it's definitely not a book I'm likely to reread.