A retired detective. A thirty-year-old cold case. A kidnapper with nothing to lose.
When a middle-aged man returns to a small town claiming to be a teenager abducted by a cult thirty years prior, a former detective steps out of retirement to uncover the truth. But picking at old wounds tends to make them bleed.
The Vanishing of The Georgia Rose
After a scholarly fourteen-year-old girl vanishes on Halloween night, uncompromising yet isolated private investigator Arden Briar dives deep into the Georgia underground to find the victim. Faced with overwhelming odds, Arden enlists the help of the victim’s damaged father, a veteran with a short fuse. Will Arden’s temporary alliance be the solution to her problem or her downfall?
I enjoyed this book as book four in a boxset, but following the first book, there was no title for the remaining three books so I'm not even sure of its name. It is not a series, but each a stand alone novel. This story was riveting and action packed. That being said, it needed a good edit. Further, the author used little idiosyncrasies about each Detective that added nothing to his or her character or the story and which became quite obsessive and annoying; for example, Grant constantly twirling his wedding band and Mocks continuously eating Pop Tarts and flicking her Bic lighter. I don't think more than two pages could be read without referencing one or the other. It was ridiculous and distracting. Misuse of words, incomplete sentences and this poor attempt at characterization reduced this book from a well written, action packed novel to mediocre at best.
The author does a good job of building his characters into my mind and I get hooked. I feel like I know Grant and Mocks, the main characters in this book. The keeps me wanting to turn the page and and finish each chapter. Walker has done that in the 3 books I have read so far. I recommend this to anyone looking for action and sleuth stories that help those who need to be rescued.
No one knows what they would do when someone they love dies! Will they just curl up and die themselves? Or will they spend their life trying to help others not lose their loved ones? Cops often see and endure the worst society has to offer! But they too have to abide by rules! What happens when they don’t?