In this psychological thriller, Caitlin Mullen brings alive a summer in a declining Atlantic City. As young women disappear, Clara, a young psychic, continues to have disturbing visions. Are the visions connected to the disappearances? Clara finds an unlikely ally in Lily, a former Soho art dealer. The tensions mount as they struggle to save a lost girl without attracting the killer’s attention. Will they succeed or fall victim? You will not be able to stop reading this book until you finish it.

Fascinating and intriguing!
The writer makes each chapter intense with a beautiful but dark style that makes the story more compelling and chilling.
This book is a page turner with unexpected twists that will keep your interest till the very end.

Review by 2shay...............

I have had the hardest time trying to decide how to review this book. I decided that honesty is the best policy. The first word that comes to mind is...depressing. This is not a happy read. This story is a dark look at the many ways women can be abused, misunderstood and mistreated. This author covers every possible way that women can cross lines, without trying, that derails their lives, up to and including sudden death. Place those women in a town with a seriously depressed economy and it becomes more heartbreaking.

Due to a very talented author, I quickly became invested in this story and it’s characters. Every word and phrase that brought these women together at this place and time was perfect. My heart ached for them all, especially the dead who wanted desperately to be found.

Don’t dismiss this book. It’s important. If one woman reads this story and finds a way to extract herself from a dangerous spiral, it will, in my opinion, have been worth every second of the authors time and talent. I actually found this depressing tale to be entertaining in a strange and compelling way. Grab a copy and...

Enjoy! ARC graciously provided by Gallery Books and NetGalley for an honest and voluntary review.

Very interesting novel... the characters come off the pages and pull you in. I could see Des fiery red hair , and the piercing blue of the killers eyes as he watched and waited. You wont be able to put it down

Atlantic City once a booming city is now dying. Old dilapidated buildings and houses can be seen everywhere. The casinos that promised a return to the city's grandeur are now closing down. Trash is everywhere. Everything is faded and worn.
Lily returns back to Atlanta City after a wild and profit making art career in New Uork. She is there to start over. Find herself. Reconnect with who she really is. While on the boardwalk she meets a young girl, Clara. Clara is a psychic. She senses and sees things. Clara is living with her Aunt Des, in what are not the best of conditions. They run a little psychic shop together.
Des may not have a gift for readings but she knows how to manipulate her niece to make the money they need.
Lily and Clara's lives will collide in a most unusual way. Solving the crimes of the six women who are missing.
Great story, entertaining, and thrilling!!

Fantastic suspense thriller based in Atlantic City. Having a lot of history in Atlantic City myself it hit very close to home. Fabulous characters and awesome story that keeps you reading until the late hours. Terrifically terrifying and a well crafted novel rhat is realistic and relatable in a creeptastic way. Highly recommended! 4.5 stars!

Please See Us is a dark, really dark, but captivating thriller. Despite the fact that everyone is really suffering, you just can't stop reading the book! This is a very well written first book and a rare book because the end doesn't leave all the ends tied up nearly for you.

Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read this ARC and give my honest option.

Please See Us is a debut novel by Caitlin Mullen which follows multiple perspectives in Atlantic City, all revolving around a series of murders. I had a difficult time rating this book because while it was well structured and enjoyable to read, I don’t know that I will be able to remember any of the characters names or the bulk of the plot.
However there were some key moments I did really enjoy, particularly the reveal of the NY drama for Lily and the loose end tie up with Luis.
This would be great for causal crime fiction readers.

I absolutely adored this book. It was dark and twisty and showed the REAL life situations that some of these girls live in. I liked the vast array of characters and the way they were all intertwined. The descriptions of different surroundings and the way I felt like I was actually IN these situations really kept me reading. The only thing I wanted to learn more about was the villain.. I want to know more about him (or her)!!

This was a tough book. The writing is good, and when I picked up a book about a serial killer, I wasn’t expecting a cheery read, but I also wasn’t thinking that every single character would be abused in some way, almost exclusively by men.

Clara is a teenage girl who’s getting by as someone who does have visions but is more con artist/thief than psychic. Lila is a woman who’s gone back to her hometown of Atlantic City to lick her wounds after her man wronged her, and what he did didn’t just impact her love life, it had a devastating impact on her career.

Clara and Lila work together after several woman have gone missing. They see a lot of ugly things about the underbelly of humanity along the way.

That’s all I can say without giving anything away. Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to review this novel, which RELEASES MARCH 3, 2020.

This debut novel resonated on several levels for me besides it’s being a heart pounding story. This author describes the less than shiny Atlantic City environs of the book in such clear detail that a reader can see, touch, and even smell that world. It is essentially a thriller but does have a clear feminist message of the need of women to be masters of their own destinies and in most cases responsible for saving themselves. It also makes one consider the unkind way some of our fellows are dismissed as being of no importance as opposed to the more fortunate among us. I really look forward to this book being published and to reading more from this author in the future.

Thank you to NetGalley for a free ARC in exchange for an honest review. 
W O W...I haven't read an ARC from a new writer like this in a long time.  Reminiscent of Dot Hutchison or Jeffrey Deaver.  This book was the closest I've come to 5 stars in a long time.  The story, descriptions, pacing are close to flawless.  The varying voices and stories of the Janes are just flawless.

Two young women, unlikely friends, both find themselves in Atlantic City.  Summer in AC used to be a time of packed boardwalks, casinos, and tourists. But no more. The only people out on the marshland are two dead women. Jane Does. Laid out behind a seedy hotel.

Clara, who is just a teenager, lives with her aunt and works as a boardwalk psychic to help pay the rent. The aunt was a real piece of work. When Clara begins having real visions after a visit from the father of a missing girl, she thinks the visions may be about her. And then more women go missing.

Lily, who used to work in the art gallery world, is just starting a job at the spa in town. She has had enough of her own drama to overcome but that won't stop her from teaming up with Clara to find the girls who are still going missing. 

But did they put their trust in the wrong person? Will they both come out alive?

This was eerie and heartbreaking. I loved the characters, even the wicked ones are done so well. Very good read!

NetGalley/ March 3rd, 2020 by Gallery Books

Twisty, dark, and sad. I read this in two sittings and it definitely holds the interest and moves well. Neither the ending nor the friendship were what I expected. Lots of complicated and deeply flawed characters. I look forward to reading this author again!

I was sent an invite to read this book
I liked that it was written by a debut author, so I read it with excitement.

I traveled to Atlantic City- I could see, hear and feel the areas.

I delved deep into characters' lives, and then deeper.
I felt for some of the characters and wanted to help or scream at them.
I was rushing to the end as I had to have the answers!

Please see us is an incredible can’t put it down novel ! I live in NJ and to read something that hit so close to home with how run down Atlantic City was and how a killer was on the loose was just perfect. The story line flowed perfectly and kept you guessing until the very end, still wondering though who he actually was, I was very happy and shocked with the ending. A fan for any murder mystery lover or if your a fellow NJ member and want a close to home read then this is it

Four realistic, heart wrenching, in the love of crime thriller Gods stars!

I can hear “Temptations” song playing in my head: “Under the Boardwalk down by the sea”, the breeze on your face, sea gulls take their random tours in the air, people passing around, walking aimless, some of them dealing with their own daily troubles and cannot even see what’s happening in front of their eyes. But now those boardwalks are empty! There is something eerie, terrifying about this abandoned, empty please. You want to know what’s happening!

So just look down and see the water washes down the missing persons! They were taken away without their consent. Now those boardwalks turned into crime scenes of those innocent forgotten women.

Two of them are already found in the marshland behind Sunset Motel.

As the crime rates are getting out of control at the land, our main character is surprisingly a good psychic, reading Tarot cards starts getting visions from those women. Those images she’s seen are so realistic, vicious. Does her mind play tricks with her or could she truly know what has happened to those women? But she needs to find a way to help them because there is a killer out there hunting those innocent women who seemed like expendable enough not to be searched for.

The other heroine is Lily, working in a Casino spa, trying to make her ends meet. Those two women’s paths cross to find out what happened to those missing women.

This is slow burning story not mostly whodunnit or surprising, twisty, riveting page-turner but writing is flawless, neat, capturing your attention so you should consider this book as a crime fiction, drama before starting it but let me tell you this, the writer’s approach to the struggling women’s world to find their places at the cruel, competitive, challenging world is so good. This is a place where the prostitution, corruption, illegal actions, drugs, violence take control of the city. This is about the women who are ignored to be investigated, nobody cares to know their stories and whereabouts which make you the entire story so heart wrenching, depressing but also honest.

The ending is also stunning, a quiet hard to digest and not for some readers but it is obviously credulous and logical. This kind of story should be ended at that way. It’s harsh, sad, agitating but this is the best conclusion we could get from this kind of story.

Special thanks to NetGalley and Gallery Books for sharing this fantastic ARC COPY with me in exchange my honest review.

This was a quite enjoyable mystery. It was gripping and suspenseful, with totally unexpected twists and turns.


I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own

This was an interesting mystery. I found it to be somewhat of a slow read but with enough suspense to keep the reader interested. This is a book that I would recommend to others.

Caitlin Mullen paints a sobering portrait of the once flamboyant and famed Atlantic City, NJ. With glimpses of a beach resort town in its heyday peeking through the eyes of the characters, the stark reality of these peoples' lives take you on a harrowing journey of heartbreak, loss, helplessness and remorse. Mullen tells the stories of multiple characters in a revolving chapter-to=chapter way yet maintains cohesiveness in the meshing of their lives throughout. The psychic, the hometown girl, the New York artist, the deaf, mute janitor and the three young women hidden in the marshland waiting to be found. This is a much seamier Atlantic City and lives can intertwine is the strangest of ways. With its quick pacing and whodunit vibe, Please See Us keeps you hooked from start to finish.