2017-10-25
A woman's search for her missing artist friend takes her into a world of greed, drugs, and murder in Maddox's (Yubi: A Love Story, 2015, etc.) thriller.For most of the eight months Kelly Durrell and Day Randall have known each other, they've lived in the former's Boulder, Colorado, home. Kelly, an assistant museum curator, has a fondness for art and recognizes Day's talent for photography. The two have even grown close, so when Kelly returns from visiting Chicago, she's shocked to find that Day has evidently moved out. Because local cops believe Day simply left of her own accord, Kelly launches a personal investigation into her friend's disappearance. She starts by talking with Day's pal Odette Helm, who has a ready supply of drugs and an enigmatic, rich hubby, Stuart, who has fortified his vast estate with an electric fence. It just so happens that Odette's paramour, Marcus, has also inexplicably vanished. Questioning people like Day's apathetic ex-roommate, Courtney, gets Kelly entangled with a handful of sleazy individuals, chief among them bar manager Welch. It's soon clear that someone's searching for Day's negatives and/or photos, potentially incriminating evidence that could provoke Kelly's abduction—or something deadlier. Maddox establishes characters so well that the mystery sneaks its way into the plot. Eccentric neighbor Owen, for example, may have witnessed something pertinent, but he's unreliable—paranoia dominates his personality (he's convinced someone's listening). And Kelly isn't so much an amateur sleuth as a concerned friend. Rather than looking for a smoking gun, she just wants to know what happened to Day. Characters are often surprising: apparent villains occasionally garner sympathy, and Kelly receives someone's unexpected assistance. While the cast can be unpredictable, the plotlines aren't. But this won't discourage readers who are regularly treated to crackling dialogue and stirring prose. For example, Kelly might not be Detective Cash Peterson's type, but he certainly notices that "her sadness and earnestness lingered like perfume."A whip-smart, buoyant protagonist guides this moody, character-driven tale.
Talented but unstable photographer Day Randall has been living rent-free in Kelly Durrell's Colorado condo for eight months. Day needs someone to keep an eye on her. Kelly needs someone to draw her out of her stable but not spectacular life. The arrangement works for both of them.
Then Kelly comes home one day to find Day gone. There's no note, no phone call. Day's car is still parked out front, but her room is starkly, suspiciously spotless.
No one seems to care. The police certainly aren't interested in a missing bipolar artist, but Kelly knows something is wrong. Day wouldn't just leave.
Alone, Kelly traces Day's last steps through shadowy back rooms of Boulder nightclubs and to a remote mountain estate, where the wealthy protect themselves behind electric fences and armed guards. Along the way, she uncovers a sinister underworld lying just below the mountain snow, and a group of powerful people who will do anything to protect the secrets hidden in Day's enigmatic photographs.
If she trusts the wrong person, Kelly herself will be the next to disappear.
If you like suspenseful thrillers with unexpected plot twists, a strong sense of place, and characters that one reader describes as “so well-drawn you'd swear they were relatives,” you'll love Mary Maddox's dark, compelling novel.
First Prize for Fiction 2017 IndieReader Discovery Awards
A Night Owl Reviews Top Pick: "Sensational!...A haunting novel full of suspense and not a little terror."
Hailed by Best Thrillers as “one of the year's best crime thrillers.”
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Then Kelly comes home one day to find Day gone. There's no note, no phone call. Day's car is still parked out front, but her room is starkly, suspiciously spotless.
No one seems to care. The police certainly aren't interested in a missing bipolar artist, but Kelly knows something is wrong. Day wouldn't just leave.
Alone, Kelly traces Day's last steps through shadowy back rooms of Boulder nightclubs and to a remote mountain estate, where the wealthy protect themselves behind electric fences and armed guards. Along the way, she uncovers a sinister underworld lying just below the mountain snow, and a group of powerful people who will do anything to protect the secrets hidden in Day's enigmatic photographs.
If she trusts the wrong person, Kelly herself will be the next to disappear.
If you like suspenseful thrillers with unexpected plot twists, a strong sense of place, and characters that one reader describes as “so well-drawn you'd swear they were relatives,” you'll love Mary Maddox's dark, compelling novel.
First Prize for Fiction 2017 IndieReader Discovery Awards
A Night Owl Reviews Top Pick: "Sensational!...A haunting novel full of suspense and not a little terror."
Hailed by Best Thrillers as “one of the year's best crime thrillers.”
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Talented but unstable photographer Day Randall has been living rent-free in Kelly Durrell's Colorado condo for eight months. Day needs someone to keep an eye on her. Kelly needs someone to draw her out of her stable but not spectacular life. The arrangement works for both of them.
Then Kelly comes home one day to find Day gone. There's no note, no phone call. Day's car is still parked out front, but her room is starkly, suspiciously spotless.
No one seems to care. The police certainly aren't interested in a missing bipolar artist, but Kelly knows something is wrong. Day wouldn't just leave.
Alone, Kelly traces Day's last steps through shadowy back rooms of Boulder nightclubs and to a remote mountain estate, where the wealthy protect themselves behind electric fences and armed guards. Along the way, she uncovers a sinister underworld lying just below the mountain snow, and a group of powerful people who will do anything to protect the secrets hidden in Day's enigmatic photographs.
If she trusts the wrong person, Kelly herself will be the next to disappear.
If you like suspenseful thrillers with unexpected plot twists, a strong sense of place, and characters that one reader describes as “so well-drawn you'd swear they were relatives,” you'll love Mary Maddox's dark, compelling novel.
First Prize for Fiction 2017 IndieReader Discovery Awards
A Night Owl Reviews Top Pick: "Sensational!...A haunting novel full of suspense and not a little terror."
Hailed by Best Thrillers as “one of the year's best crime thrillers.”
Then Kelly comes home one day to find Day gone. There's no note, no phone call. Day's car is still parked out front, but her room is starkly, suspiciously spotless.
No one seems to care. The police certainly aren't interested in a missing bipolar artist, but Kelly knows something is wrong. Day wouldn't just leave.
Alone, Kelly traces Day's last steps through shadowy back rooms of Boulder nightclubs and to a remote mountain estate, where the wealthy protect themselves behind electric fences and armed guards. Along the way, she uncovers a sinister underworld lying just below the mountain snow, and a group of powerful people who will do anything to protect the secrets hidden in Day's enigmatic photographs.
If she trusts the wrong person, Kelly herself will be the next to disappear.
If you like suspenseful thrillers with unexpected plot twists, a strong sense of place, and characters that one reader describes as “so well-drawn you'd swear they were relatives,” you'll love Mary Maddox's dark, compelling novel.
First Prize for Fiction 2017 IndieReader Discovery Awards
A Night Owl Reviews Top Pick: "Sensational!...A haunting novel full of suspense and not a little terror."
Hailed by Best Thrillers as “one of the year's best crime thrillers.”
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| BN ID: | 2940169857825 |
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| Publisher: | Author's Republic |
| Publication date: | 08/09/2017 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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