Great complex investigation, while remaining romantic
The story is extremely well written, totally different from WL Knightly's previous series, but it's also a very good story. Here, the characters are of different ages and the heroes are young adults, which gives them both a certain inexperience and a lack of perspective at first, on what is happening around them. They experience and begin to get out of the torpor or problems in which they were or are still stuck until everything rocks.
The beginning seemed a little long to set up both the atmosphere and the characters, but the story is so dense in information that I understand the need, especially that the authors are used to well hide the suspects in the normality, and the atmosphere of a small town is perfect for that. This atmosphere seems full of secrets, investigations abandoned or not carried out in their terms in the past, pressures.
Suede wants to start again her studies in criminology that she left after the accident of her mother who disappeared (her car was found two years before in the water). His father-in-law Ted has also struggled with this disappearance. He is the detective of this sector and Suede wants to follow him in internship, in addition to her work of storage in the local newspaper, with Maggie who worked with her mother when she was a journalist.
Riley lives with his older brother who wants to become mayor, but is rather insupportable, irascible. He doesn't take care very well of the farm and the bed and breakfast that their parents had built. Yet his brother has a good reputation, when Riley has a very bad reputation despite his efforts.
Riley and Suede meet in a study group with their mutual friend Graham to work on a criminal report.
The study group has 6 people: Graham in pairs with Jenn, David with the unbearable Kara, and Riley with Suede.
During a geocaching outing, Jenn, Graham, Riley and Suede discover human bones over the cache's capsule: this is the beginning of a quest whose clues are scattered or by a killer or someone who seeks to denounce a crime.
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