Jonetta’s Comments (group member since Dec 17, 2018)

Jonetta’s comments from the 2-3-4 Challenge Book Discussions #2 group.

While searching Annmarie’s apartment and the garage, they find her business card next to her truck, the back of it having a message to call Nikki if found. Later when they enter her apartment, she has a room that looks like a task force war room focused on Frost. Where did your theories take you in this moment?

Nikki goes to see Annmarie’s father Howard who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease to see if she can notify him of her death. While there, he thinks she’s her mother and mentions that he will still “take that secret to the grave.” It unnerved Nikki…what about you?

The woman is kneeling at a gravestone, her hair blowing in the breeze, a bunch of wilting yellow daffodils on the grass beside her. Her eyes are fixed on the ground and her mouth is parted in a silent prayer. But the wax dripping from her cold blue lips means it’s already too late to save her…

On her first day back with the Denton PD after a major trauma, Detective Josie Quinn is on the hunt for a missing woman, Krystal Duncan, the mother of one of five children killed in a devastating school bus crash. Hours later, Josie finds Krystal’s body beside her daughter’s grave, her lips sealed together forever with wax.

Forensics match the wax to one of the candles lit in memory of the sweet little souls who died, giving Josie her first lead to a support group made up of the parents who lost children in the crash. Painstakingly dissecting the lives of these grieving couples, it’s clear to Josie that each of them is hiding something about the day of the accident—but whose secret is worth killing for?

The case takes an agonizing turn when the body of another young mother is found near the site of the bus crash. Someone connected to the accident is out for revenge. As the members of the support group are picked off one by one, every second counts for Josie to save the lives of these loving parents who have already suffered the loss of those they treasured most…

She was beautiful: shiny blond hair, crystal blue eyes and the widest smile Nikki had ever seen. She thought back to what she had seen in the ground, the dirt that caked the white bones. All that remained of her now was the silver locket that was still around her neck…

When construction workers unearth a girl’s skeleton in Stillwater, Minnesota, Special Agent Nikki Hunt is called to the scene by her boyfriend Rory. Nikki knows instantly that the girl was murdered, but she is shocked when Rory immediately recognizes her. The victim was his childhood sweetheart, Becky, and he was the last person to see her before she went missing twenty-four years ago.

With the love of her life now a potential suspect, Nikki is forced to take a step back from the case. But then her colleague Liam finds lies in Rory’s statement – it appears that Becky may have been carrying Rory’s child when she was killed. Despite this, Nikki still thinks he could be innocent, and knows she must find the real killer herself if Rory stands any chance of walking free.

When Nikki finds a potential link to two pregnant girls who were found murdered years before it’s clear that this is the most twisted killer that she has ever faced. And then another girl goes missing from Stillwater. Can Nikki unearth the truth and protect the man she loves? And will she find the missing girl in time to save her life?

A dark and twisty crime thriller that will make you hold your breath as you race towards the end. The Girl in the Ground is an unputdownable new mystery for fans of Lisa Regan, Robert Dugoni and Willow Rose.

Yay!!!

Exactly!

The rangers speculated that Frost reached the Boundary Waters using a Wilcraft to avoid detection when he buried Annmarie in the ice. Had you heard of such a thing before this story?

Nikki and her team are dispatched to the Boundary Waters in Superior National Park to a potential Frost crime scene. They’re almost certain this is Frost’s work and then Nikki recognizes the woman as her childhood friend, Annmarie Mason. In that moment, did you think this was now personal or a coincidence? Should Nikki have stepped back and let Liam take the lead?

The story opens with someone watching a woman moving out of a home, six years earlier than the present day. Who did you think the woman was? What about the person spying on her?

I guarantee you a good time with the Delta Crossroads Trilogy. The first book, Tin God has been free for a long time. Hope it still is.

A recipe for legal disaster. They could be discredited in a trial.

Yeah, I got icky vibes about him and could tell he was hiding something.

I didn’t believe that girl drowned on her own, either. When the brownie wrapper showed up, it set me on that path where drugs had something to do with the drowning.

Seemed to come out of nowhere. I don’t know what rubbed him wrong.

I thought she did the right thing. She knew the paramedics were on the way and it was prudent to let them pronounce her dead.

I recall my sister doing it with her children. It didn’t seem so bad back then but it sounded worse here. Maybe because Josie made such a big deal.

I thought it was a little much for a pre-schooler…until it paid off.

I could tell this was a killer that was doing this for sport. And, I couldn’t figure out the gender.

I’m enjoying it, too. Green’s history is in writing from the male point of view and her Delta Crossroads Trilogy is excellent, as well as the novella spinoffs. She had another series where the main character was female but she was morally gray and fascinating. All of those books were written and released independently.

I’m beginning to think it’s the Bookouture editors that have a formulaic plan because Green’s writing and plotting was so sharp when she didn’t have a publisher. And, they’re smart enough to leave Angela Marsons and DI Kim Stone alone.

They have a way to go to find solid ground, especially considering his family’s feelings about her.