The Hiding Season by Ava Glass follows the sole witness to a high-profile murder trying to survive. Ms. Glass is a civil servant and former crime reporter.
- 368 pages
- Publisher : Bantam
- Publication date : March 17, 2026
- ISBN-10 : 0593972228
My rating for The Hiding Season – 3
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Thoughts:
I started reading the book expecting high-tech adventure and spy craft in a European setting. Instead, I got a story about an ordinary person being chased by criminals and the government.
The Hiding Season by Ava Glass is a standalone psychological thriller, a departure from her spy novels which I enjoyed very much. Instead, this is a gritty survival story, toned down and lean.
Even though it doesn’t seem like it, this is a team book. The protagonist, Maya, would probably be dead within 40 pages if she didn’t have someone helping her almost every step of the way. I liked this aspect of the book, since all the one-man/woman stories, as much as I enjoy them, are unrealistic at best.
Much of the book’s narrative is unreliable. We only know as much as Maya does, which isn’t much, for a long time. The psychological aspect of the novel weighs on her just as much as her forced isolation.
I honestly don’t know what to think about this novel. I enjoyed it but I didn’t think it was a fast-paced thriller, or particularly suspenseful. The infrequent romance seemed far-fetched and unrealistic in a story which is grounded in reality.
Synopsis:
Maya Landry took a job in Montana after a difficult divorce. The job involves being a caretaker for a cluster of isolated lodges owned by millionaires and rarely used.
Her peaceful life ends when she finds a corpse in one of the lodges which turns out to be a high-profile person. As the sole witness, she is forced to flee and disappear before
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