November 2021

In EVERYTHING WE DIDN’T SAY, Nicole Baart has penned a slow-burn thriller set in a small Iowa town.

Juniper Baker is back. Ostensibly she’s there to help a friend who has taken ill and to work with her at the local library. But coming back for Juniper means she needs to confront just a few things. First, there’s the teenage daughter she left behind --- the one who's been raised by her mother and stepmother. Then there are the neighbors nearby who were brutally murdered around the time she took off. Her younger brother was the lead suspect.

So now Juniper is back and has a chance to make a lot of things right. But before she does, there will be a whole lot that needs to come undone. Also, the stakes are high as there is a true-crime podcaster who is on the trail of the story of the murders --- and once again they have a laser point on her brother.

Told in two timeframes and two voices, the prose is tight while it slow burns, and the ending is so well done --- and quite a surprise.