Thriller is an excellent description for this book.
Also, if you are interested in cults, they get good attention here. Those sections were actually quite informative.
The blurb for this book says that it’s a stand-alone, but there were times that I felt like I was coming into a series. The way the characters related and referred to each other made me feel like I was missing some background.
That didn’t detract from the overall plot, however, which was extremely interesting. After a prologue that really drew me in, the action shifted to a macabre finding and that’s where the investigation starts.
It took a while to circle around to connecting the prologue, but the ride on the way was entertaining. I liked the mysterious aura that Hunter had (at least, that’s how I felt about him). It made me question what was personal and what was professional in his motivations. That made him a particularly interesting character.
I will say that this isn’t for the squeamish. There is extensive detail regarding both dead bodies and the psychological abuse suffered within a cult. Those things don’t bother me, but fair warning to others.
This is also a well-researched book. I don’t want to give anything away, but the details (and motivations) of the murders (no spoiler) were intriguing as well.
As a personal note, I got a kick out of the Everglades location, because we just moved to the region so some of the references were familiar (or at least made me think of where we have already explored).
Not that we’ve explored the small towns and found anything like described in this book! 😊
Anyway, for a stand-alone, this was a pretty decent read. I’d recommend it but with the warnings above.
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Heather Graham is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author has written over two hundred novels and novellas, has been published in approximately twenty-five languages and with about 60 million books sold in print in the categories of romantic suspense, historical romance, vampire fiction, time travel, occult, and Christmas holiday fare. For more information, visit her at TheOriginalHeatherGraham.com.
