#BookReview Dying to Meet You by Sarina Bowen @SarinaBowen @harperbooks #DyingToMeetYou #SarinaBowen #HarperBooks #HarperPerennial Title: Dying to Meet You

Author: Sarina Bowen

Published by: Harper Books on May 13, 2025

Genres: Mystery/Thriller

Pages: 368

Format: Paperback

Source: Harper Books

Book Rating: 8.5/10

The acclaimed USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author returns with a twisty thriller that probes how well we actually know the men in our lives.

Rowan Gallagher is a devoted single mother and a talented architect with a high-profile commission restoring an historic mansion for the most powerful family in Maine. But inside, she’s a mess. She knows that stalking her ex’s avatar all over Portland on her phone isn’t the healthiest way to heal from their breakup. But she’s out of ice cream and she’s sick of romcoms.

Watching his every move is both fascinating and infuriating. He’s dining out while she’s wallowing on the couch. The last straw comes when he parks in their favorite spot on the waterfront. In a weak moment, she leashes the dog and sets off to see who else is in his car.

Instead of catching her ex in a kiss, Rowan becomes the first witness to his murder—and the primary suspect.

But Rowan isn’t the only one keeping secrets. As she digs for the truth, she discovers the dead man was stalking her too, gathering intimate details about her job and her past.

Struggling to clear her name, Rowan finds herself spiraling into the shadowy plot that killed him.

Will she be the next to die?


Review:

Intense, deft, and suspenseful!

Dying to Meet You is a tortuous, simmering tale that introduces us to Rowan Gallagher, a successful architect who, after tracking her ex-boyfriend through his phone to the historical mansion she’s currently working on, suddenly becomes the number one suspect in his death when she happens to be the unfortunate one who stumbles across his bloodied body.

The writing is fluid and tight. The characters are vulnerable, consumed, and multilayered. And the plot is an intricate tale of deception, manipulation, secrets, suspicions, revelations, drama, entangled pasts, mayhem, and murder.

Overall, Dying to Meet You is another ominous, gripping, twisty whodunit by Bowen that does a wonderful job of reminding us that things are never as straightforward as they seem.

 

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About Sarina Bowen

Sarina Bowen is the RITA® Award winning author of over two dozen contemporary and LGTB romance novels. She most recently hit the USA Today bestseller's list in February, with Brooklynaire. Formerly a derivatives trader on Wall Street, Sarina holds a BA in economics from Yale University.

Sarina Bowen is a New Englander whose Vermont ancestors cut timber and farmed the north country since the 1760s. Sarina is grateful for the invention of indoor plumbing and wi-fi during the intervening 250 years. On a few wooded acres, she lives with her husband, two boys, and an ungodly amount of ski and hockey gear.

Sarina's books are published in a dozen languages on four continents. In 2016, The Romance Writers of America honored HIM by Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy with a RITA award for Best Contemporary Romance, Mid-Length.