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Mystery Week is here again!
Here's our first review!
Random Road introduced Geneva Chase - "a reporter with a compelling voice, a damaged woman who recounts her own bittersweet story as she hunts down clues," said Library Journal - to murders straight out of a nightmare - six bodies found naked and cut to ribbons in a posh Connecticut home.
Synopsis:
Having survived a nightmare investigation, and a personal tragedy, Geneva's story still includes alcoholism and career challenges compounded by the rocky finances of her newspaper employer. But she's working. She's fighting the urge to reconnect with a magnetic yet married lover. And she's raising a rebellious young lady who is not her daughter but a cherished legacy.
Nevertheless the newshound in Geneva spurs her to bad if not downright dangerous choices as two unrelated crimes unexpectedly collide. A fifteen-year-old-girl at her ward's high school has vanished along with her English teacher. Is this same-old, same-old, or something more? And then there's the abused woman who torched her sadistic husband, and how to keep her out of the clutches of powerful mobsters - and thus, out of the news.
Out on the crime beat, Geneva works to unravel the connection, if any, between these two disparate stories while her newspaper is put up for sale, a high-flying Hollywood production lights up the town, and her personal battles accelerate. Jarring twists and turns include charming movie stars, treacherous diamond merchants, adultery, sex traffickers, and murder. While the clock ticks and Geneva works desperately to find the missing student, she comes to the horrible realization that she's in over her head.
Review:
Oh sequels. Sometimes you leave us wanting more, and other times....
Geneva's back, and so our her 'issues', and that equals a rollicking fun page turner of a mystery! Not only is she trying to keep her job (again, it's become status quo) but she's coping as a first time Mom, while nursing her grief, and trying to find her way through a muddled tangled web of deceit that she unknowning bumples into, and finds her home suddenly a crime scene. Can she discover the killer and same herself along with her job and home? You've got to read this nicely done sequel to find out!
About the Author:
Author of the Geneva Chase Mystery Series, Thomas Kies lives and writes on a barrier island on the coast of North Carolina with his wife, Cindy, and Lilly, their shih-tzu. He has had a long career working for newspapers and magazines, primarily in New England and New York, and is currently working on his next novel, Graveyard Bay.
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