In 2017, Carly is tracking down people who knew her aunt – specifically, a retired night shift police officer named Alma Trent and a photographer named Marnie Clark. So why is he staying at a motel just a few blocks from his home?

Vivian believes she’s discovered a serial killer, a traveling salesman who always registers under a different name when he stays at the Sun Down. The lights flicker, she smells smoke, each room’s doors fling themselves open at the same time, and a ghostly woman repeatedly urges her to RUN! By researching the history of the town, she finds that the ghostly woman was Betty Graham, a schoolteacher whose body was found on the construction site of the Sun Down Motel in 1979.

She nabs the same job at the Sun Down Motel, which rivals The Overlook for Most Frightening Literary Lodging, and begins investigating the 35-year-old mystery.įrom her first night at the motel’s desk, Viv knows something is definitely off-balance at the roadside hotel. So Carly, always intrigued by the aunt who was never discussed by her mother or grandmother, takes her small inheritance and a leave of absence from college to move to Fell and investigate her aunt’s disappearance. Also twenty at the time, she was never seen again after vanishing during her overnight shift at the check-in desk of the Sun Down Motel in Fell, NY.

Carly Kirk is twenty in 2017, drifting after the death of her mother and curious about a family tragedy that no one ever discussed: the disappearance of her aunt, Vivian Delaney, on November 29, 1982.

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