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Vanishing Trails: A Smoky Mountain Mystery
Vanishing Trails is the continuation of the story of Daisy McLaren and Jake Smith told in Appalachian A Smoky Mountain Mystery. It picks them up again during the Fourth of July weekend of the following year. Daisy is living with her small calico cat named Rescue above her father’s garage; Jake is living on the family farm.
Daisy still believes her mother had been murdered just before Daisy’s graduation from UNC-Chapel Hill.
A young woman, Keira Swan, returns to Franklin after a long absence, and she has with her an infant. Before she can explain herself, she disappears in the middle of the night. Jake and his hound dog Susie Q track her to a spot down the road where Keira apparently got into a car to vanish.
When Daisy visits the trailers that the Swan family call home, she is knocked out and wakes up in her Jeep in front of an abandoned cabin high above the Cullasaja Gorge. When the county sheriff investigates, he finds the skeletal remains of eight persons, none of which could be Keira’s. Secure in her belief that Keira might still be alive, Daisy continues her search for Keira and hopes that, by finding Keira, she might also learn why her mother died.
Daisy still believes her mother had been murdered just before Daisy’s graduation from UNC-Chapel Hill.
A young woman, Keira Swan, returns to Franklin after a long absence, and she has with her an infant. Before she can explain herself, she disappears in the middle of the night. Jake and his hound dog Susie Q track her to a spot down the road where Keira apparently got into a car to vanish.
When Daisy visits the trailers that the Swan family call home, she is knocked out and wakes up in her Jeep in front of an abandoned cabin high above the Cullasaja Gorge. When the county sheriff investigates, he finds the skeletal remains of eight persons, none of which could be Keira’s. Secure in her belief that Keira might still be alive, Daisy continues her search for Keira and hopes that, by finding Keira, she might also learn why her mother died.
254 pages, Paperback
Published May 10, 2023
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November 2, 2023
I read this mystery not only because it was a sequel but because it is based where I live in Franklin, NC! In the prologue she helpfully mentions how to correctly pronounce a couple Cherokee words. Although, it is fiction, I appreciated the author's addition to name real places and locations. Sad, that some of the eateries are already closed. I could really enjoy picturing where Daisy was driving. However, she seemed to be doing a lot of that needlessly back and forth retracing where she had already been. That's just my opinion. And she drank a lot of Coke-gross. For such a young person Daisy seemed to tire easily and sleep in late. I'm a cat person so I liked that she had a cat. Daisy had some quirks I found amusing. I do have to take issue with one thing though. We do get a fair share of rain but not in biblical proportions like that!
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