To catch a killer…
Perhaps you’ve bought to be one…
Acacia Pines, USA. Sheriff Cohen`s life is falling aside – his father by chance burned down the retirement dwelling, his spouse has moved out, and his son is bullying different youngsters at college.
When high-school pupil, Lucas Connor, is kidnapped, Cohen sees an opportunity to get his life again on monitor – to win again his spouse and scoop the reward cash provided for Lucas`s protected return.
However because the physique rely rises, it turns into clear that Cohen`s going to must make the sort of determination from which there`s no coming again … a choice with lethal penalties…
A furiously paced, edge-of-your-seat thriller exposing the darkish underbelly of small-town life, His Favorite Graves can be a twisted and twisty story of father-and-son relationships, and the one final gamble of a determined man to avoid wasting all the pieces…
E-book Information: Print size: 305 pages. Writer: Orenda Books. Publication Date: 9 Nov 2023
My Ideas
It’s no secret that I like darkish and disturbing books and His Favorite Graves had been really useful to me as a very darkish one, so I began studying it with out even checking the blurb.. yup I do know I’m such a insurgent!
Set in a small city within the USA, Acacia Pines is a seemingly quiet and comparatively protected place to stay. Nonetheless, Sheriff James Cohen is having a very tough time in the meanwhile. His spouse has left him, his teenage son hates him and his father, identified with Alzheimer’s, has simply been kicked out of the care dwelling he was in for burning it down (by chance) and killing a resident, however that is nothing in comparison with the day Lucas Connor is having.
Lucas is a pupil on the native highschool, an outsider and sometimes bullied by the opposite pupils, has been locked in a faculty locker on the finish of the day and left. Hours later, the janitor hears him shouting and Lucas lastly feels assistance is on it’s manner and is being rescued. Nonetheless, the janitor isn’t precisely a knight in shining armour, he’s a really troubled and harmful paedophile and Lucas isn’t his first sufferer both.
Kidnapped from the locker and now on the mercy of this very sick particular person it’s a race towards time for Sheriff Cohen to seek out Lucas and rescue him.
I raced by this guide, the tempo was quick, the strain was tight and the plotline was flawless. I might describe this guide as a “literary Russian Doll” as every chapter unveiled a brand new stunning revelation and was stuffed with surprises and twists that I completely did NOT see coming.
It’s a really uncomfortable learn with a number of set off subjects that some readers may not wish to examine together with little one abuse, sexual abuse, homicide and suicide. It’s probably one of many darkest books I’ve learn in recent times, but when this doesn’t trouble you, then I might 100% advocate it to followers of darkish, twisted and really, very disturbing thrillers.