Storm Island: A Kate Pomeroy Mystery

by Linda Watkins

From award-winning, USA Today Bestselling Author, Linda Watkins, comes a new contemporary gothic series to chill your bones and warm your heart.A body found hanging from the ceiling fan in the tower room of the old manor house on Storm Island.For nineteen years, Kate Pomeroy has suppressed that memory. A second-year-resident in surgery, she thinks she has her life under control. But a curious conversation overheard while taking a catnap launches her on a descent into a world filled with nightmarish visions that cause her to doubt her own sanity.Sent to Storm Island to rest and recuperate from an apparent breakdown, Kate is forced to come to grips with memories of the summer her mother died as well as new terrors that plague her mind. Even the blossoming of an unexpected romance with islander, Jeremy Bradshaw, cannot keep her fears at bay for long.The discovery of a strange little silo, hidden deep in the woods, spurs Kate to action as she tries to unravel its mysteries. But is the silo real or just another illusion created by her tortured mind?Storm Island, A Kate Pomeroy Mystery, is the first book in a series of mysteries taking place on Storm, a remote island off the coast of Maine.

338 pages, Paperback

Published November 26, 2018

Reviews

[Sue Plant]

would like to thank netgalley and the publisher for letting me read this spooky book

kate is a surgeon working through her residency, when for some unknown reason she becomes paranoid...several events occur that the diagnosis could mean she may be committed

but luckily for kate her dad interverned and sent her off to be looked after by her aunt...and so the visit to storm island began

years ago kate and her mom would visit every summer but a fatal event occurred there and katie had never been back...now she is back there and the memories are surfacing...

but why do the blackouts keep occuring, could it all be in her imagination or is someone out to get her, but who could it be..as only her aunt and uncle are on the island with her...surely they couldnt be behind it all...

and what about that light in the silo that nobody else can see...

all in all a very good psychological thriller that will keep you reading till the end

[Alexis]

Was a instering book to read kept me pulled into it. Five star book. I do recommend it. I couldn't put it down

[Wrenn]

Kate Pomeroy is a second year surgery resident who ostensibly has a breakdown at Memorial Hospital, where she is training. It coincides with hearing a conversation between two doctors that she wasn't meant to hear.
Almost committed to an institution for evaluation, her surgeon father intervenes and sends her to Storm Island to recuperate, under the care of her aunt, an esteemed psychiatrist.
Her Aunt Hettie and Uncle Raoul have a vacation home on the island. Kate will help get it ready for the summer visitors while her aunt oversees her recovery.
The place has bad memories. Her mother committed suicide there and as a child, Kate found her body. Her mother suffered from depression, has Kate inherited her mental illness?
As she prepares the house,she reunites with Jeremy Bradshaw, a friend from her childhood. They have a romantic connections, but can it survive her worsening mental condition?
This dark, gothic thriller has a touch of mystical elements and romance.
A fun and entertaining read that kept my interest. I did feel that the writing was filled with cliches that sometimes pulled me out of the story, and it felt antiquated at times.
Despite these flaws, I really enjoyed it, an excellent escape from reality.
Looking forward to the next one in the series!
Thank you to Argon Press for the e-ARC via NetGalley.
3.5 stars, rounded down to 3 stars.

[Jacqui Huntley]

Kate suffers a breakdown at work and her father sends her to his sister's on Storm Island to recuperate. As a doctor herself she is unsure about her illness, not convinced about all of the pills etc she has to take, hasn't really come to terms with her mother's apparent suicide decades ago and so on. Perhaps the island isn't the best place to go as that's where she found her mother's body on otherwise idyllic holidays. Lots of nightmares, paranoia, things that others say aren't there add to her distress. There is drug dealing, people trafficking, secret tunnels and 16th century witches to add to a complex and well-written story before Kate comes out the other end - intact and with a hunk of a boyfriend. I suppose that he was essential but remain unconvinced. The twists and turns keep you guessing as to who is a 'goodie' and who a 'baddie' and the tension is kept up throughout. I look forward to the next in the series and now that Kate and Jeremy have got together perhaps he'll add something to the story. Thanks to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for an advance copy in exchange for my honest review.

[Cheryl]

Suspenseful thriller. Kate is a second year resident in surgery, getting ready to assist in a major surgery and the world tilts. We are off on this grand mystery which throws a little bit of everything. Mental illness, real or imagine? Her dad sends her to storm Island to recuperate from her world tilting.. The same island she lost her mom on from mental illness, or was it.? This book has so many twists and turns, shadows with drugs, human trafficking and light with people who care and a budding romance with a veteran who has his own issues. WHen I read this book I understood the word complex. It is truly a complex mystery a suspenseful thriller in the gothic mysteries of old and sprinkled with romance. Thank you Linda Watkins, Argon Press and NetGalley for the arc. This was a first read of mine by Linda Watkins and it won't be the last.

[Craig Pearson]

Thank you to Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book. 'Storm Island' begins as a relatively simple story. The heroine does not seem to have a complete grasp of the situation she finds herself in. The protagonist is obvious from the very beginning. What is not obvious is why all of this is happening. Each character in the story has a part to play but their development is lacking. A good read, just not exceptional.

[Kelly]

I really enjoyed this story. There is lots of psychological suspense that will keep you turning pages. Very fast paced read.