Title: A cold dark place
Author: Gregg Olsen
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Copyright: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7860-1830-7
Series or stand-alone: #1 in new series
Setting: Cherrystone and Seattle, Washington
1st Sentence:
4 P.M., Nineteen years ago
Women with transparent vinyl purses that exposed the shredded remains of coin wrappers stood in line.
Comments:
The book begins with the conviction of Dylan "Dash" Walker for the murder of 2 co-eds. Fast forward to present day where Emily Kenyon is a detective in Cherrystone and single mom to 17-year-old Jenna. In a twister, Jenna's friend Nick's family dies. But it's murder. Jenna goes on the run with him to prove that he didn't do it.
This book has a lot of characters to keep track of as well as multiple time jumps but it was a great thriller and I'll be reading the next in the series with a more mature Jenna titled HEART OF ICE.
In a separate note I want to say that my heart goes out to the residents of nearby Dunkerton, Parkersburg and New Hartford. On Sunday, May 25th we had a wedge tornado more than 1/2 a mile wide and catergorized as an EF5 rip through our neck of the woods and parts of these towns were just destroyed. You can see video here and here and a slide show of just some of the destruction in Parkersburg here. Several tornadoes touched down at the airport which is only about 7-10 miles from my house driving distance which was close enough to have me cowering in my basement with my dog. But these folks took an unimaginable hard hit and have a massive job ahead of them.
My thoughts are with them all.
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