The Wolf Wants in (Hardcover) by Laura McHugh

from ML923

4.5 stars. Blackwater, a small, dead-end town in Kansas, somewhere near Kansas City — a town hit hard by the opioid crisis and filled with broken marriages and dark secrets — forms the backdrop of this powerful novel. The story alternates both in time and narration between two characters: Sadie, ...

from thebooklover2

I loved "Sharp Objects" and when I saw that this book had been compared to Gilliam Flynn's novel. I just had to read it. "The Wolf Wants In" did not disappoint! This book is set in a small town in Kansas - a town that has been rocked by the opioid crisis. There are two different narrators and thr...

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3.5 Not sure I would consider this a thriller per say. There are deaths but they result from the actions of the forces at work in this small Kansas town. The force being the opiod crisis which has affected many in towns all over the US. A once prominent town, now so store fronts boarded up, house...

from KellyReeder

I really tried to like this book, but I'm glad I finally finished. The storyline was good, but what threw me off of the story was trying to keep up with all of the characters and “who was related to who” and how all the characters knew each other. I honestly have never spent more time with a book...

from kremsa

Thanks to LibraryThing and Penguin Random House for the ARC of The Wolf Wants In. Originally billed as a thriller I found this more to be a mystery. It is told in the alternating POVs of Sadie and Henley. Sadie's brother has died, supposedly of a drug overdosed, but Sadie is suspicious and begins...