Girl in the Creek by Wendy M. Wagner

Erin Harper's brother Brian has been missing for five years. He vanished during a solo hiking trip in the Pacific Northwest. Erin lands an assignment to do a puff piece on the town where he vanished from so she takes the opportunity to do a little sleuthing. But why are women going missing? And who is the girl in the creek?

I wanted to love “Girl in the Creek”, I really did. It wasn't unsettling enough to be creepy, and it definitely wasn't scary enough for me to read only in daytime. There's elements of body horror, alien invasion, and societal horror but none of it really scared me. The story never really seemed to get cohesive enough for me to care about any of the characters and it kind of felt that it needed to be about a third longer to really work. (Look, I almost never say that a book should be longer, but here we are.)

I received an ARC copy from NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion.