Darkness Lane
By Thomas Kies
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Random Road introduced Geneva Chase—"a reporter with a compelling voice, a damaged woman who recounts her own bittersweet story as she hunts down clues," says Library Journal—to murders straight out of a nightmare—six bodies found naked and cut to ribbons in a posh Connecticut home.
Having survived this and a personal tragedy, Geneva's story still includes alcoholism and career challenges compounded by the rocky finances of her newspaper employer. But she's working. She's fighting the urge to reconnect with a magnetic yet married lover. And she's raising a rebellious young lady who is not her daughter but a cherished legacy.
Nevertheless the newshound in Geneva spurs her to bad if not downright dangerous choices as two unrelated crimes unexpectedly collide. A fifteen-year-old-girl at her ward's high school has vanished along with her English teacher. Is this same-old, same-old, or something more? And then there's the abused woman who torched her sadistic husband, and how to keep her out of the clutches of powerful mobsters—and thus, out of the news.
Out on the crime beat, Geneva works to unravel the connection, if any, between these two disparate stories while her newspaper is put up for sale, a high-flying Hollywood production lights up the town, and her personal battles accelerate. Jarring twists and turns include charming movie stars, treacherous diamond merchants, adultery, sex traffickers, and murder. While the clock ticks and Geneva works desperately to find the missing student, she comes to the horrible realization that she's in over her head.
Darkness Lane, the second novel in the Geneva Chase Mystery Series, hurtles along at a breakneck speed where nothing is what it seems, and where art and reality collide in a terrifying climax.
Thomas Kies
Author of the Geneva Chase Mystery Series, Thomas Kies lives and writes on a barrier island on the coast of North Carolina with his wife, Cindy, and Lilly, their shih-tzu. He has had a long career working for newspapers and magazines, primarily in New England and New York, and is currently working on his next novel, Graveyard Bay.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When Caroline, Geneva's ward, loses out a part in a prestigious play, she is jealous of her best friend. But, when that best friend, Bobbi, goes missing, Geneva follows a storyline that could lead to finding Bobbi. While investigating some crimes in the area, including the burning of an abusive husband, Genie realizes that some of this is leading back to Bobbi's disappearance. Genie also runs afoul of the Tolbonov brothers that she suspects are the Russian mob. She wonders if this is all tied together. This book has a lot - mob, abuse, S & M, trafficking, murder, and more. Geneva is again struggling with her alcoholism, and managing a 15 year old teen, as well as her own up and down love life. I really like Genie and the situations she gets into as she investigates. Looking forward to book 3!