Check the trigger warnings on this one. This was dark but good. The setting was great in Northwest Canada, and I liked the detective, Jane. This book had multiple POVs, but too many. There were a lot of characters to follow, and that many POVs is hard to keep straight. The ending was shocking, and also why I say to check the trigger warnings.

A psychological thriller begins when bones are found and a cold case heats up fast. I greatly enjoyed my first Loreth Ann White book. The prickling chills and suspenseful climax with some surprise twists had stuck with me, and I was eager to pick up her latest release.



The Unquiet Bones begins in the present when old bones are accidentally dug up, setting Royal Canadian Mounted Police homicide detective Jane Munro on a new case. Forensics provides the shocking news that the bones are associated with an unsolved disappearance from forty-seven years before. The past comes front and center, splitting the storyline.

Two stories in one: 1976 and the present. The Shoreview Six, the girls associated with the disappearance of Annaliese, have moved on, but once the bones are discovered, they are uneasy and must protect the lies from the past with more lies.



I was fascinated by the forensics work and police procedural details. However, I confess to being a little confused at first by the large cast of characters including the Shoreview Six, an investigative journalist, the forensics specialist, and others associated with the case, but I eventually got the strands sorted.



I liked Jane as the detective and the backstory of her boyfriend who disappeared into the wilderness on a hiking trip and she never had the chance to tell him she was pregnant with his child. Jane showed a great deal of steel managing her personal troubles during this difficult case.



Atmospheric, haunting tension, dark twists and turns, and a shocking, horrific reveal brought all I expected and more from Loreth Anne White's latest, The Unquiet Bones.

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There are many characters and all of them are worried about themselves; things they have done in the past. When a body is found underneath a remote chapel, everything starts getting examined to the unhappiness of many people.

Jane is excited to have a cold case with some real evidence and something important to do aside from her own difficulties. Her fiancé is missing and she is six months pregnant. She is smart and an excellent investigator. She is dogged by unscrupulous reporters. However she perseveres. It is wonderful for her to have the job to do and do well.

The six friends who know parts of the night have gone on with their lives and careers for 47 years. They have lied and covered the truths they knew for all that time. While Annalise was dead. Now with bodies found, there will be closure for the families but nothing is what they thought.

I loved the tension of the characters who felt they might get caught. I enjoyed the triumph of Jane pursuing the evidence and steady progress. There were plenty of twists I didn't expect. I also wonder if we will have more stories of Jane and her future.

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

where to start with this one.....

an old church is being moved and the contractors are busy making that happen but when they uncover a leg bone with a boot attached the police are called in

Homicide detective Jane Munro is that person... very pregnant , she has been moved to the cold cases as a disciplinary for previous events and she lands this case

as the investigations continues the identity of the bones comes into focus and people start to get nervous..... old promises come out and need to be enforced again

omg this book kept me riveted right to the end and the outcome wow wasnt what i expected at all.... what a read....

A quick, sharp, and ultimately sad read that will keep you guessing about what happened to who, and is full of tangled, dark threads.

Jane, the detective, is struggling with her own losses and impending single motherhood, but she's dogged, resilient, and open to growing her worldview.

Annalise, the body they find, the bones that speak, and unravel a nearly 50 year-old mystery in ways that I did not expect when I first started this book. While we never see anything from her living perspective, she's just a kid, and a kid who was lost long before she was buried beneath the chapel on the mountain.

There was so much to like about this book, and some of it is the reality that a lot of people aren't likable. They are full of good and bad things, and everyone has regrets and secrets. Some are willing to drag the pain into the light, even if it seems like it's too late. There were definitely some twists I didn't see coming, and a few red herrings that were fun to chase even when they weren't the resolution. A great mystery, and an attention-keeping way to spend a few hours.

Homicide detective Jane Munro Is just about to go on to maternity leave but after old human bones are discovered on a construction site Jane is given the case and makes the wrong assumption this will be a straight forward case, it is anything but!
The discovered bones reveal long buried secrets and the case takes on a new life.
Great thriller by a wonderful author.

I thought this was an intriguing mystery—a 50 year old cold case that could negatively impact several high standing members of the community, the group of friends referred to as the Shoreview Six. The story after the initial discovery of the bones moved pretty slowly with so many different POV to follow. I had trouble keeping up with all the different characters at first. But the story started heating up and the tension building and I couldn't wait to find out what happened next. I think it could have been better and easier to follow if the focus was on the main key characters but overall I really liked the story.
Thanks to Montlake through Netgalley for the advance copy of this book. The opinions in this review are my own and given voluntarily.

Homicide Detective Jane Munro is called to the scene of an excavation that has uncovered long bones, one still wearing a high heeled boot. The body was under the chapel at the ski resort. Rumors were that the chapel was haunted or was the body buried beneath longing to be found? As she and her team investigate, they concentrate on Annalise Jansen, a missing teen who was fifteen when she went missing over forty years ago. As the word spreads, we learn that there was a pact made among six friends, the Shoreview Six, who are suddenly worried how the body will affect them. One person can keep a secret, but can six? Jane is pregnant and missing her fiancé and the father of her child who disappeared in the Cayoosh Mountains. She has personal decisions to make, but concentrates on finding justice for Annalise. Jane has the assistance of her friend and forensic expert Dr. Ella Quinn. Will they find out who killed Annalise and why? I received an advance review copy at no cost and without obligation for an honest review. (paytonpuppy)

I am not usually a true crime/mystery reader. The gritty details of that kind of story tend to put me off. But Loreth Anne White is an exception to that. She takes an actual event and makes it real, but still gives the reader a certain distance from it while involving us at the same time. She is an exceptional writer and one of my favorites.

The discovery of human bones buried beneath an old skier's chapel at a ski resort set in motion the reopening of a case that is almost fifty years cold and thought to have been resolved. When Annalise Jansen and Darryl Hendricks both go missing after a party, the police assume they ran off together, even though neither is ever heard from again. This doesn't cut it with Jane Munro who has recently lost her fiancé and is living in the same limbo the families have lived in for 47 years.

As Jane digs deep into this cold case, she uncovers several secrets that Annalise took with her to her grave. It soon becomes apparent that her friends, the Shoreview Six, have lied about certain aspects of that night. Now all she has to do is find the weak link in this group to solve the case. That may not be so easy as these teens have all gone on to become well respected members of the communities. But with the help of forensic anthropologist, Dr. Ella Quinn, she now has evidence that the original investigators never had. As Annalise's body tells her story, cracks form in the alliance of the Shoreview Six and soon the terrible secrets are reveled.

My thanks to the Publisher and Author for providing a complimentary digital Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of this novel via NetGalley. This is my fair, honest and personal review. All opinions are mine alone and were not biased in any way.

Twisty/turny thriller with multiple POV’s. I loved everything about it! Kept the pages quickly turning and I couldn’t put it down. I love everything I’ve read from this author….this book was exceptional. I highly recommend!! Thank you NetGalley and Montlake for allowing me to read this ARC!!

I always hear great things about Loreth Anne White's books so I've been eager to finally read one, and The Unquiet Bones was a great place to start.

A well-developed detective thriller, The Unquiet Bones is a brilliantly detailed story, and I can tell that White is a talented writer. I got a great sense of the characters and the setting, making me feel right in the centre of this investigation.

I really liked the idea of the bones being able to speak their story, and the time taken to get to know all of the characters and their pasts. It gives you plenty of motives to suspect, and the twists were much darker than I expected so they certainly took me by surprise.

There's still a lot that I want to know about Jane though, so I would definitely be interested in this becoming a series.

Ok, there were just too many POVs in this book. Usually I loved alternating POVs but this was just confusing and hard to follow. I did like the books but the amount of characters significantly brought my rating down.

4.25⭐

Meet homicide detective Jane Munro. Who knows how precious life can be. After all, she's currently pregnant with her missing fiancee Matt's baby, and has recently been reassigned to the basement to work on cold cases.

Which is why she gets called to a work site in the woods. Where two brothers demolishing an old chapel, have discovered human remains, remains that appear to be around fifty-years old. As the bones are attached to a platform boot popular in the 1970s.

And Jane, at , feels a sense of purpose and a chance to finally get at least one family some closure.

As one particular case from that period stands out. That of missing teen Annalise Jansen.

But for her friends dubbed the shoreview six this discovery threatens a long buried secret and a pledge made nearly fifty years ago.

A pledge they will go to any lengths to keep quiet.

But forensic anthropologist Dr Ella Quinn can read bones and make them talk and when another set of remains is discovered. It's clear that it's not only Annalise that has lots of big secrets to tell.

And with a story told from multiple points of view, including the shoreview six, Jane, Dr Ella Quinn and a journalist out to make a name for herself. This was a captivating mystery.

That balances the two timelines well. But does get a little confusing thanks to the number of points of view. Especially as names seemed to change from first to last to nicknames.

However, it's extremely well researched, interesting and intriguing, and I did enjoy it a lot.

This book had me hooked right from the beginning, it’s such a page turner!
Fast-paced, short chapter, easy to read and great writing style makes this police procedural murder mystery book hard to put down!

The multiple POVs is a great touch to the story, readers will be able to see from the investigation view, from the media and public view as well as the people who were involved in the missing girl and boy in 1976.

This story has secrets darker and crueler which left me absolutely shocked and in disbelief after learning the truth. There’s one particular twist that blows my mind because it never crossed my mind when I was making theories about what happened the night two teenagers went missing.

I felt so bad for what happened to the victims and I’m surprised to know that their bones can ‘speak’ the truth which bring closure to their loved ones as well as justice to the ones responsible.
That brings me to one of the most intriguing aspect from this story; human bones can tell a lot about a particular person - whether they’re healthy or sick, their gender, their age, etc.

Overall, this is a thrilling well written story that comes with a mind-blowing twist and satisfying ending.
I’ll definitely look forward to read more books from this author in the future – I wish this one becomes a series though cause I’d like to see more of Det. Jane!

I received an advanced review copy for free through Netgalley, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. Huge thank you to the author and publisher!

⚠️ 𝐓𝐖: adult/minor relationship, child abuse, addiction, alcoholism, infidelity, murder, death

I’m a big fan of White’s work. The Unquiet Bones by Loreth Anne White was another fantastic and cleverly written story.
I really enjoyed the author's vivid characterizations as well as the book's riveting and compelling police procedurals.
The plot is filled with unexpected twists that maintain a gripping pace till the end.
It’s a fascinating blend of suspense and thrill.
All in all, this was another riveting, well-executed thriller.

Thank You NetGalley and Montlake for your generosity and gifting me a copy of this amazing eARC!

Thank you #netgalley and #amazonpublishing for this ADC in exchange for an honest review!

𝑴𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔:
It's no secret that Loreth Anne White is one of my favourite thriller authors. Her books never fail to grip me from the very beginning and with this book it was no different!

While I appreciated the way the well-hidden secrets and truths gradually came to light, in typical White style, I would have liked to know the fate of some of the characters in the book and get some explanation.

In particular, the death of one of the characters was not satisfactorily explained, which made me think this might be the start of a series.

But all in all a solid thriller which had all the right ingredients that I love in a true crime!

𝑨𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌:
The story starts with a bang when human bones are discovered near a ski resort on Hemlock Mountain in Canada.

Homicide Detective Jane Monroe, heavily pregnant, has been struggling to come to terms with her husband's disappearance ever since he went hiking last autumn! Now she just wants to find out who these human remains belong to so she can give the family the closure they deserve.

But things get complicated when the murder case is linked to the disappearance of a young girl in the 1970s. She was one of the Shoreview Six, a group of teenagers who are now all prominent members of society. Did one of them get away with murder? And what are they willing to do to prevent the truth from coming out?

Loreth Anne White has done it again, this cold-case thriller, inspired by a true story, had me on the edge of my seat all the way to the heartbreaking ending.

When homicide detective Jane Munro unearths human bones beneath an old chapel, she reopens the decades-old case of missing teen Annalise Jansen, unraveling a web of secrets among the affluent members of the Shoreview Six, who find their dark past resurfacing and threatening to expose the terrible pledge made on an early autumn night forty-seven years ago.

For fans of Bones and Pretty Little Liars.

Annalise Jansen vanished after a night of partying, she was fifteen, that was in 1976. Her friends, named the Shoreview Six, in the media, steer attention to a young man who disappeared the same night. In 2023 bones are found under an old chapel in the woods. The cold case is given to Detective Jane Munro. Jane is dealing with her own private issues, she is pregnant and her fiancé disappeared on a solo hiking trip six months prior, not knowing about the baby.

The story is told from different POVs and dual timelines. We learn alot about all the players, but the author keeps us guessing as twists and surprises are are reveled. It is not long before a second body is discovered.

We have a smart tenacious reporter, Angela Sheldrick, wanting to get the story first. Dr. Ella Quinn is the forensic anthropologist that reads the "unquiet bones". These characters, along with Jane, work to bring closure to the victims.

This was another great mystery from Loreth Anne White. The mystery kept me engaged and I feel (and hope) that we will see Jane, Angela and Dr. Quinn again. I want to know what happened to Jane's fiancé.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher, Montlake, for an ARC. The review is my own.

The Unquiet Bones delves into a chilling tale where human bones unearth a decades-old mystery, connecting the present to a haunting past. Loreth Anne White crafts a rich atmosphere, immersing readers in a bone-chilling narrative that keeps the pages turning.

The story's intricate plot kept me hooked from start to finish, with each twist and turn heightening the suspense. The unraveling of secrets among the group of friends, known as the Shoreview Six, adds layers of complexity to the investigation, keeping readers guessing.

One of the highlights of the novel is its protagonist, homicide detective Jane Munro. Her relatable character and unwavering determination make her a compelling lead, anchoring the narrative with her likability and strength.

Overall, The Unquiet Bones is a gripping read for fans of mysteries, cold cases, and police procedurals. With its compelling storyline, rich atmosphere, and engaging characters, this book is sure to captivate readers who enjoy unraveling intricate puzzles and uncovering hidden truths.

Thank you NetGalley and Loreth Anne White for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Loreth Anne White has become a favorite author ever since my first book of hers last year.
I find her writing to be so incredibly elevated and talented. She is fresh, writes unique stories that really get your brain thinking and engaged.