This is another book I’ve had on my Kindle for quite some time. I shouldn’t have taken so long to read it.
This book has everything I like in this genre. It started
out right away with what happened twenty years ago. A very brutal, very
gruesome crime against a family.
Fast forward twenty years … we are taken through Kara’s
turmoil, how she meets Wesley Tate, and a couple of detectives who are assigned
to reopen this very old, very cold case. We are also introduced to one of Kara’s
stepbrothers, Jonas.
The other thing I liked about this one is that it takes
place in my home state, Oregon, so mentions of various cities throughout Oregon
took me back to my childhood for a moment.
I also liked the pacing of this one … it seemed to move
rather quickly in some spots, petered out when a clue would be a dead end, and
then picked up again when Detective Thomas caught an idea and had to follow it.
There were quite a few turns in this one which kept me guessing. I honestly
thought I had it figured out … no, I was wrong, turned out the whodunnit was
someone totally different than the one I picked out. That’s another thing I
liked about this one, the surprise of the whodunnit. I also liked the
relationships that developed between the characters through these pages, Tate
and Kara, Detective Thomas and Detective Johnson, Jonas and Kara, Jonas and Mia,
to name a few.
I will warn more sensitive readers that some of the descriptions
are quite vivid, not as vivid as some I’ve read, but still … there is one scene
near the end that is quite ugly to say the least. If you have a squeamish stomach
or have nightmares easily, just be prepared.
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