PRESS AND REVIEWS
The Girl in Duluth
Buzz on Instagram, TikTok, and Goodreads about The Girl in Duluth:
@audreyoaksreadseverything: "I enjoyed this mystery/crime story from the first page. The writing is clear and engaging . . . This was amazing."
@roxaslove: “It was easy to connect with June. I just loved this book.”
@joannasbookshelf: "I loved the imagery that the author provided. The author also did a fantastic job interweaving themes such as race, gender, socioeconomic status."
@literature_leona: "A great read."
@fayandfelineobsessed: "I was sucked in immediately and finished the book in less than 24 hours.”
@nursebookie: “This slim novel packed a punch, and was deftly written with a great understanding of characters, those you root for, and those that you love to hate … The Girl In Duluth is a great debut.”
@pastbookish: "This debut novel was a great read."
@fitnessandfiction: “I am enjoying everything I’m reading and listening to right now, but I haven’t had anything really suck me in for months—until this book . . . .It approaches topic that are very relevant in a way that makes them real."
@that_bookaholic_gal: "The beautiful descriptions of the Minnesota setting painted the atmosphere and added even more to the story. I was hooked from the beginning and the story kept a good pace."
@ladybug_shirls: "The Girl in Duluth is an engrossing small town mystery mixed with an emotional coming of age story . . . . The writing is also quite beautiful and good. I highly recommend picking this one up for a quick but engrossing mystery with all the feels."
@mowgliwithabook: "This was a roller coaster book for me. Had me rooted to the spot from start to finish."
Allie Bayer: "I think what impressed me most was how intensely Brown got me to sympathize with these characters. June, Frank, Jack, Andrea (of course); I could physically feel my heart hurt for them . . . . 10/10 would read another novel written by Brown!"
* A review of The Girl in Duluth in Publishers Weekly, April 2022:
"Set in Duluth, Minn., Brown’s affecting debut centers on 18-year-old June Bergeron, who becomes concerned when her mother, Tonya, with whom she has a fraught relationship, goes missing. Though June considers Tonya her parent “only in the strictest biological sense,” she joins her mother’s special friend, Frank, in searching for Tonya, alarmed that five other women, all matching Tonya’s age profile, have disappeared that year in northern Minnesota; three were eventually found murdered. June and Frank’s hunt for Tonya ends with their finding her dead of a gunshot wound. Unsatisfied by the obvious evidence of death by suicide, June starts an inquiry that leads her to believe her mother’s death might be connected with a sex-trafficking ring. Brown easily creates engagement with June, and poetic prose is a plus (in Tonya’s pocket is a note reading: “Do not be sad... Death is the ultimate voyage to the unknown... Look for me in the stars. Do not look for me in my body. I am not there!”). Fans of thoughtful crime fiction will hope for more from Brown."
* A review of The Girl in Duluth in Portland Book Review, May 2022:
"With an atmospheric setting in a remote and densely forested patch of Minnesota adjacent to the Canadian border, The Girl in Duluth by Sigrid Brown tells the evocative and often troubling tale of a rural community populated by families with rumbling resentments and several secrets to hide. Following her mother’s disappearance and the local police force’s apparent inability to crack the case, eighteen-year-old June Bergeron decides to undertake her own investigation. She soon becomes suspicious that her mother’s case might be linked to a series of unsolved murders of women whose bodies were found dumped in the woods near Duluth, and as she investigates the matter further, she finds herself drawn into the hidden underbelly of the city, a grimy place characterized by poverty, exploitation, and abuse. As June comes to realize that many within the community are hiding disturbing secrets, she is forced to admit that she no longer knows what is true or who she can trust. While seeking to find out what really happened to her mother, she ends up finding out more than she ever imagined or wanted to know about the people of Duluth."--Erin Britton
