The Resort
BY sara ochs sourcebooks landmark2024Query Letter
Given your representation of Allie Reynolds and your interest in dark thrillers with foreign settings, I am excited to share with you my 96,000-word adult psychological thriller, THE DIVE. Told through dual narrators, THE DIVE captures the suspenseful twists and armchair tourism of Andrea Bartz’s WE WERE NEVER HERE and Allie Reynolds’s SHIVER.
Under the island’s cliffside beaches and pristine ocean waters lie dark secrets that some would kill to protect.
Koh Mok is a place where people go to disappear, and Cass Morris is no exception. But despite escaping to the glittering island and leaving her old life behind, Cass is still haunted by the violent night in that blood-soaked hotel room a decade ago. And when the murder of a resort guest—a girl who looks disturbingly like her sister who died that night—threatens to unveil the island’s dark secrets, Cass must decide how far she’ll go to keep her dark past hidden.
When I’m not traveling or scuba diving like the characters in THE DIVE, I work as an attorney and an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Louisville’s Brandeis School of Law, where I teach legal writing and international criminal law. While my scholarly work has been published in numerous academic outlets, this is my debut novel.
I have attached my synopsis and the first three chapters. Thank you very much for your consideration, and I hope to hear from you.
About
Age Range
Adult
Genre
Thriller
Word Count
96,000
Book Link
https://www.amazon.com/Resort-Novel-Sara-Ochs/dp/1728279550
Agent
Kate Burke
Query Stats
Number of Queries Sent
11
Number of Full Requests Received
4
Number of Offers of Representation
2
Number of Months Spent Querying This Novel
1 month
Years Spent Writing Before Getting an Offer
1
Number of Manuscripts Queried Before This One
0
Publication Status of The Book Queried
Published (Big 5)
Years Spent Writing Before This Book was Published
3