"AN ABSORBING SUSPENSER FROM NEWCOMER FOX THAT MAKES ESPECIALLY VIVID USE OF SETTING AND OF ITS COUNTDOWN FORMAT."
Kirkus "FLAWLESS...BECAUSE MR. FOX PUTS SO MUCH PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL REALITY INTO (THIS BOOK), THE EXECUTION OF THESE MACHINATIONS IS ALL THE MORE UNSETTLING. THIS ONE SCARED ME." New York Times Book Review "FROM THE OPENING SENTENCE TO THE FINAL PAGE, FIRST NOVELIST FOX SEDUCES READERS WITH A CHILLING TALE ABOUT A TOWN TERRORIZED...BRIMMING WITH RICH CHARACTERS, ROMANCE AND SUSPENSE, THE PLOT RESOLVES IN A BREATHTAKING DENOUEMENT...THIS SURE-HANDED DEBUT MARKS THE ADVENT OF A STRONG NEW TALENT... CHILLING...BREATHTAKING... BRIMMING WITH SUSPENSE...A STRONG NEW TALENT." Publishers Weekly [Starred Review] "YOU WILL TURN THE PAGES SO FAST YOU'LL BE FINISHED BEFORE YOU KNOW IT." Echo Magazine "AN INCREDIBLE NOVEL SO FILLED WITH TENSION, READERS WILL LEAVE FINGERPRINTS IMBEDDED INTO THE BOOK'S COVER." Midwest Book Review |
HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO...
A man dressed as a clown boards a school bus at 7:20 a.m. The children think it's a game until the stranger draws a gun and squeezes the trigger. By 7:30 a.m., one child is dead and twenty-six others have disappeared in the Las Cruces desert without a trace. TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT? The kidnapping stuns Ellen Camacho, single mother and one of only two detectives in the small Southern California town. Nothing has prepared her for the stark cruelty of this seemingly motiveless crime-- or the promise from the kidnapper that all the children will die in thirty-eight hours. |
"DEFTLY SPINS TOGETHER TERRIFYING ELEMENTS TO CREATE THE ULTIMATE NIGHTMARE...THERE ARE ENOUGH SUSPENSEFUL PLOT TWISTS AND SURPRISES TO KEEP PAGES TURNING UNTIL THE HIGH-VOLTAGE DENOUEMENT."
Publisher's Weekly "THE AUTHOR ARTFULLY KEEPS THE READER GUESSING...A WELL-CRAFTED SUSPENSE NOVEL." Booklist "THE SUSPENSE THRILLER OF THE YEAR." Midwest Book Review |
Kate McDonald is a dedicated social worker at a bustling Los Angeles hospital. Her husband Paul is a deputy D.A. and a respected member of the hospital Board of Directors. Together, they've been blessed with a healthy new baby boy named Alex. But something else is happening at the McDonald home, something terrifying. A series of mishaps, each more bizarre than the last, has befallen the McDonalds' beautiful eight-month-old son, leading to a shocking accusation of abuse. suddenly, Kate is pulled into the heart of a nightmare that not only threatens to destroy her career and her marriage, but her very sanity. Then, in the dead of night, the anonymous phone calls begin...
"You don't know why this is happening, do you, Kate?" Someone with an unfathomable motive has invaded Kate McDonald's life. And now that some person is setting an inescapable trap... with Alex as the bait. For Kate, learning the reason behind this torment means delving deep into the shadowy recesses of her own past, including the secrets she's hidden even from herself. Because what Kate can't remember may be the most dangerous thing of all. |
"Fox uses misdirection with the skill of a master magician, keeping us looking in one direction while he does something sneaky with his other hand, so it's best just to sit back and enjoy the show." Booklist |
Imagine your mother dies suddenly, and among her possessions is a death certificate stating that you, her only child, died as an infant over thirty years ago in a town you'd never heard of. For Mark Ritter, a single father struggling to raise his young daughter, it has become a bizarre reality. Now, an uncertain past is reaching out for Mark, beckoning from the deceptively peaceful community of Harmony, Colorado, where long-held secrets lie hidden away in the beauty of the Rocky Mountains.
Peeling away the layers of intrigue is only the beginning of Mark's disturbing quest for the truth. For a heinous long-ago crime has bred fear and suspicion in the town of Harmony. Its web of lies-- intricately spun for decades-- is about to be exposed, and someone will kill, and kill again, to keep them hidden forever. |
