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You would do anything to protect your child.
Even if she’s a monster . . .
Synopsis:
Rebecca Carter and her daughter Monica, nicknamed Moonflower, travel the American West, always on the move, always hiding, always looking behind them, always keeping Moonflower out of sight. They speak to no one, only interacting with people when it’s absolutely necessary.
But wherever they go, bodies are left behind.
Special Agent Marc Donner of the FBI has been tracking a killer for the best part of two years. A murderer that strikes once every few weeks. The victims are all men, many disappearing only to be found months later, dumped in forests or rivers or quarries, far from their places of death. All of them with their throats opened, their bodies bled out and their spinal cords severed.
The killer leaves no trace, no clues – only a trail of corpses.
After all this time, Donner has gleaned only a handful of facts from the few witnesses and snippets of CCTV footage available. He’s hunting a middle-aged woman who drives a van with blacked-out windows and false plates. Often she poses as a child online to lure in her prey. It’s never been enough to track her down though.
Until now.
And so begins a cat-and-mouse game between Donner and his prey, Rebecca and Moonflower. But who is the actual hunter – and who is the actual prey? For perhaps Moonflower isn’t the child that her mother claims she is. Perhaps she’s something else – and as Donner puts everything on the line to capture them and prove his suspicions right, perhaps he isn’t prepared to face what is really out there.
Review:
Pretty much in the first chapter you get an idea that Moonflower is not 100% human-but as to what she is, you aren't quite sure. What you do know it that Rebecca is thoroughly devoted to protecting her at all costs, but their existence is iffy, and they are constantly on the run. Then you get to know Donner and realize there is a collision course coming and it probably is not going to end well. The book holds your attention and is a hybrid fantasy/police procedural book. While the author does give you the hints so that you know what is coming, the book ends with a surprise, leading to an obvious second book in the making. If you like fantasy, you'll tear through this book!
About the Author:
Stuart Neville, the “king of Belfast noir” (The Guardian), is the author of nine novels, including The Ghosts of Belfast, The House of Ashes, and Ratlines, as well as numerous short stories. He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and been shortlisted for the Edgar, Macavity, Dilys, Barry, and Anthony Awards and the CWA Steel Dagger. He lives near Belfast.
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