The Undercurrent, Sarah Sawyer
The Undercurrent, Sarah Sawyer
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The Undercurrent
A Novel

Author: Sarah Sawyer

Narrator: Sara Sheckells

Unabridged: 9 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/08/2024


Synopsis

“A mystery of remarkable scope, bristling with intelligence, beauty, and humanity. It is, quite simply: stunning.” —Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

“A stunning, achingly beautiful and gripping mystery. Full of page-turning suspense, intrigue, and secrets…I loved it.” —Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colors of the Dark

“Delve into a thrilling novel where dark secrets and hidden agendas intertwine, keeping you on the edge of your seat with every twist and turn.” —E! Online

An Apple Books Best Debut of 2024
Fall 2025 Reading Group Indie Next Pick
19th Annual National Indies Excellence Awards Finalist

An overwhelmed new mother becomes obsessed with the unsolved disappearance of a young girl from her small Texas hometown—and unearths her own family’s dark secret.

It’s 2011 and the decades-old case of Deecie Jeffries’s disappearance in Austin, Texas, is still cold. New mom Bee, struggling with postpartum depression, is living in Portland, Maine, having left Austin—and those memories—far behind. Until Leo, her childhood crush and her estranged twin Gus’s best friend, suddenly resurfaces, drawing Bee back into their shared past.

Bee’s predictable life is upended, pushing her to return to her childhood home and piece together a neighborhood’s shattered history. She becomes consumed with a need to uncover the truth about Deecie’s disappearance and what happened to the families who lived across the field from one another—Gus, Leo, and their mothers: Mary, a homemaker, whose only escape is the local community theater, and Diana, a serious academic dedicated to her studies.

Told from multiple perspectives and timelines, The Undercurrent is a gripping portrait of motherhood, broken family bonds, and buried secrets.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amy on October 07, 2024

This was a slow burn, character driven mystery that had many different layers and themes giving it tons of depth. It’s a quiet style of suspense, there’s not a ton of action but I still found the narrative to be compelling. I loved the themes of motherhood and the exploration of how far one would go......more

Goodreads review by Stacy40pages on September 21, 2024

The Undercurrent by Sarah Sawyer. Thanks to @zibbybooks for the gifted Arc ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A new mother gets tangled into a mystery of her past; a neighborhood girl who disappeared when her and her twin brother were children. A slow and quiet mystery of the past, it was hard to believe this was a debut. The......more

Goodreads review by Jane on July 29, 2024

Rounded up from 3.5 stars The Undercurrent is a mystery-thriller debut novel by Sarah Sawyer. It moves back and forth in time between 1987 and 2011 and is told from multiple points of view. A young girl admires two older boys who hang out in a field that is scheduled to be bulldozed into housing. A n......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on October 24, 2024

This book was just OK for me. I was looking forward to reading this debut novel touted as being filled with page turning suspense, intrigue and a chilling mystery, however I found it to be more a family drama, with obsessive women, family secrets and a simple mystery. I was surprised at a few revela......more

Goodreads review by Cade on February 20, 2025

The cover is cool…......more