Blog Tour Review & Excerpt: Sleep No More by Jayne Ann Krentz

 

Sleep No More (The Lost Night Files #1) by Jayne Ann Krentz

Publication Date: January 3rd 2023 by Berkley

Pages: 332

Source: Publisher 

Rating: ★★★★

Links: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | Goodreads

My Thoughts:

Pallas Llewellyn had a successful career as an interior designer utilizing her paranormal talent to balance spaces until seven months ago when she and two other women, Talia and Amelia, lost a whole night of memories. Since then, Pallas, Talia and Amelia’s psychic talents have grown and morphed into more and the three women have banded together to find out exactly what happened. Now they run a podcast, The Lost Night Files, to investigate cold cases, looking specifically for more affected like them.

Ambrose Drake hasn’t been able to sleep well since his abilities were enhanced and so he checks into a sleep clinic to help. Unfortunately, the experience went horribly wrong, and Ambrose is sure a woman was murdered, but can’t prove it so he calls on The Lost Night Files to investigate.

Pallas goes to investigate and together they try and get to the bottom of what happened while still navigating their new normal. Their investigation puts them in danger as they get closer to the truth and closer to each other.

Sleep No More was an entertaining, page-turning mystery, a blend of romantic suspense with paranormal elements. Jayne Ann Krentz has a certain brand of storytelling that fans will recognize and enjoy in this first installment of her new series. Pallas and Ambrose’s story wraps up nicely, but there are threads of their lost night that are still unsolved, a perfect lead-in for Talia and Amelia in coming books. 

4 Stars

About the Book

New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz returns with the first novel of the Lost Night Files, an exciting new romantic suspense trilogy about a night that changed three women forever—but that none of them can remember.

Seven months ago, Pallas Llewellyn, Talia March, and Amelia Rivers were strangers, until their fateful stay at the Lucent Springs Hotel. An earthquake and a fire partially destroyed the hotel, but the women have no memory of their time there. Now close friends, the three women co-host a podcast called the Lost Night Files, where they investigate cold cases and hope to connect with others who may have had a similar experience to theirs—an experience that has somehow enhanced the psychic abilities already present in each woman.

After receiving a tip for their podcast, Pallas travels to the small college town of Carnelian, California, to explore an abandoned asylum. Shaken by the dark energy she feels in the building, she is rushing out when she’s stopped by a dark figure—who turns out to be the women's mysterious tipster.

Ambrose Drake is certain he’s a witness to a murder, but without a body, everyone thinks he’s having delusions caused by extreme sleep deprivation. But Ambrose is positive something terrible happened at the Carnelian Sleep Institute the night he was there. Unable to find proof on his own, he approaches Pallas for help, only for her to realize that Ambrose, too, has a lost night that he can’t remember—one that may be connected to Pallas. Pallas and Ambrose conduct their investigation using the podcast as a cover, and while the townsfolk are eager to share what they know, it turns out there are others who are not so happy about their questions—and someone is willing to kill to keep the truth from coming out.

Excerpt:

Photo credit: Marc von Borstel

About the Author

Jayne Ann Krentz is the author of more than fifty New York Times bestsellers. She has written contemporary romantic suspense novels under that name and futuristic and historical romance novels under the pseudonyms Jayne Castle and Amanda Quick, respectively. Jayne currently lives in Seattle, WA. Learn more online at jayneannkrentz.com.