Caine’s fascinating portrait of a psychopath will keep psychological thrillers fans turning the pages. Was the mother abducted and needs saving, or is she perhaps criminally responsible for the girls’ deaths? The tension rises as the case becomes entwined with increased threats to Gwen and her family, and the two fully fleshed out leads wind up in a grim battle with a sadistic killer. Kez asks Gwen for her unofficial help in exploring how the twins’ mother allowed this tragedy to happen. One night, Gwen’s police detective friend, Kez Claremont, is called to the scene of a car submerged in a pond with drowned twin baby girls inside. Gwen and her kids have been forced to live in perpetual fear, since people troll and even threaten her because they believe her guilty of acting as Melvin’s accomplice, even though she was acquitted of the charge. May God grant your loved ones peace and comfort.The engrossing fifth entry in Thriller Award finalist Caine’s Stillhouse Lake series (after 2020’s Bitter Falls) finds Tennessee PI Gwen Proctor living happily with flight instructor Sam Cade, who has recently adopted her two children by her late ex-husband, Melvin Royal, a serial killer. I have never had a series end because of an author’s death. Rest in Peace Rachel Caine and thank you for the wonderful books. A blogger friend had mentioned that the series is ending but not why. Unfortunately, a quick look at Goodreads brought me the sad news of her demise back in November, 2020. Her popular book series include the young adult Morganville Vampires novels, the Great Library series, and the 1. I stopped and said a quiet prayer for her to pull through. I was absolutely stunned and saddened by the Author’s note at the end and the news about her health. This is such a hard review to write, so I will keep it brief.
But working to solve these vicious and unreasonable crimes will expose them both to a killer they can’t for the life of them see coming. So is the body count in this backwoods Tennessee town.Īs threats mount and Gwen’s hunted by an enemy who pulls all the strings, Kezia has her back. But that past is attracting the attention of someone invisible…and unstoppable. On the surface, Gwen’s life is good-two children approaching adulthood, a committed partner, and a harrowing past dead and gone. The mystery of their mother, vanished without a trace, leads Gwen Proctor and Kezia Claremont into dangerous territory. The bodies of two girls strapped into their seats. They’re hunting a killer so silent, so invisible, that his unspeakable crimes are the only proof he exists.Ī car submerged in a remote pond.
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