A woman with a traumatic past gets roped into a weekend retreat in order to solve a mystery.

What she uncovers is more than what she was expecting.

This was really fun: you have this wild “cult” like retreat, Thea’s not so great amateur sleuthing, and plenty of plot twists.

I’ll definitely continue to pick up books by this author.

Thank you to the publisher for the eARC

I was so excited to be approved for this ARC after reading The Writing Retreat and loving it so very much. This book was very enthralling and I was captured by the plight of the main characters. Definitely will be easily recommending this to others.

Okay Julia Bartz is a force of nature in the mystery thriller genre. While I loved the Writing Retreat, I didn’t love The Last Session AS much which surprised me because I love cults. I think it was the sci fi elements that were throwing me, but I do think they were relevant to the plot. Overall, an excellent second novel! Well done