About the book:
A killer with a penchant for torture has taken notice of forensic expert Gwen Marcey. . .and her daughter.
When Gwen Marcey’s dog comes home with a human skull and then leads her to a cabin in the woods near her Montana home, she realizes there’s a serial killer in her community. And when she finds a tortured young girl clinging to life on the cabin floor, she knows this killer is a lunatic.
Yet what unsettles Gwen the most is that the victim looks uncannily like her daughter.
The search for the torturer leads back in time to a neo-Nazi bombing in Washington state–a bombing with only one connection to Montana: Gwen. The group has a race-not-grace model of salvation. . .and they’ve marked Gwen as a race traitor.
When it becomes clear that the killer has a score to settle, Gwen finds herself in a battle against time. She will have to use all of her forensic skills to find the killer before he can carry out his threat to destroy her–and the only family she has left.
My review:
I actually bought this book for my mom for her birthday a year or two ago, and it managed to resurface from the vortex of books in her bedroom when I was helping her a few weeks back. It sounded like a decent read, so decided to show it to my book club to see if they’d be interested. They agreed right away, so I figured I’d better read it.
Well, once I started reading this book, I could not stop. I finished it in less than a day, despite having to put it down and do real life once in a while. That is vastly quicker than I normally read a book, but the plot was so interesting and the writing so smooth that I wanted to keep going. Every spare moment, I snatched it up and dove back into Gwen’s harrowing tale.
The author certainly knows how to build tension, throw false leads, and keep you guessing to the last moment. I really enjoyed her writing style and will most certainly read Carrie Stuart Parks again.
This is the second novel in the Gwen Marcey series, and I have not yet read the first, but that certainly didn’t hamper my enjoyment of this story. I highly recommend you grab your own copy and hang on for a thrilling read! 🙂
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