I found The Night Flowers boring, unfortunately. Switching perspectives between two women, Laura and Jean, the two eventually work together to try and solve a cold case. And, for some reason, Herchenroether decided to throw some supernatural moments that didn't quite work for me. It was distracting more than anything.

I felt as though Herchenroether was just constantly feeding me information, to the point where I wasn't sure what to do with all of it, other than hope that it all comes together at the end without it being too muddled. Laura and Jean read as characters with random traits and back stories slapped onto blank figures, crafted in a way that made them seem more complex than they actually were. I think what made their characterizations fail was that they felt disconnected from the plot and even their motives.

Herchenroether isn't a bad writer by any means, but I think there was a lot left to be desired in this novel with the way it was executed.

In 1983 a group of unsuspecting hikers find the bodies of a woman and two children, wrapped in sheets and stuffed into a container, abandoned in New Mexico’s Gil’s National Forest. Years later two different amateur sleuths Laura and Jean are drawn to solve the case. They each become obsessed to find the truth behind the murders. “The Night Flowers,” is raw, shocking, emotional, dark, and deeply compelling.