A Mysterious Review of Virtue Falls by Christina Dodd.
Review summary: This novel of suspense is a wonderful blend of mystery and romance. There is a lot of depth to the characters and the setting, so much so that one can readily imagine accompanying them on their quest to learn the truth, and even feeling the danger when the earthquake strikes and tsunami hits. Highly recommended. (Click here for text of full review.)
Our rating:
Virtue Falls
Christina Dodd
St. Martin's Press (September 2014)
Publisher synopsis: Twenty-three years ago, in the isolated coastal town of Virtue Falls, Washington, four year old Elizabeth Banner witnessed her mother's brutal murder. Elizabeth's father was convicted of killing Misty and sentenced to prison. Elizabeth was sent to live with relatives, and grew from a solitary child to a beautiful woman with a cool scientific mind and an instinctive distrust of love.
Now Elizabeth is back in Virtue Falls, a geologist like her father, living cautiously, her life guided by logic and facts. But nothing can help her through the emotional chaos that follows the return of her ex-husband, Garik Jacobsen, an FBI agent on probation and tortured by the guilt of his past deeds. Nor can it help her deal with her father, now stricken with Alzheimer's and haunted by Misty's ghost.
When a massive earthquake reveals long-concealed secrets, Elizabeth soon discovers her father is innocent. Is the killer still at large, stalking ever closer to the one witness to Misty's murder? To Elizabeth herself?
Elizabeth and Garik investigate, stirring old dark and deadly resentments that could provoke another bloody murder — Elizabeth's own.
0 comments:
Post a Comment