When the mutilated remains of a young woman are found in an Appalachian Mountain cave, newly sworn-in deputy sheriff Brynn Callahan is forced to track down a killer driven by twisted motives . . . Not long after donning the uniform of the McCreary County Sheriff’s department in Bone Gap, Tennessee, ex-Marine Brynn Callahan faces her first official homicide. On a cold February morning, a lone … February morning, a lone cross-country skier stumbles across the mutilated body of a young woman. Sent to investigate, Brynn is shocked when she recognizes the victim as a fellow Traveller, Maura Keene.
Maura held a solid standing both within the Travellers’ insular community and among the settled townspeople—a fact that makes her murder all the more disturbing to Brynn, who also straddles the two worlds. After her trained K-9, Wilco, digs up human bones, and then a scrap of paper scrawled with arcane Latin phrases is uncovered, Brynn finds evidence leading her to question those closest to her—and closing the case becomes a deeply personal matter.
While trying to suppress local superstitions and prejudices, Brynn discovers that Maura was keeping a dangerous secret. And as the bones Wilco found are analyzed by forensics, Brynn harbors the troubling suspicion that she knows who they belong to. Still struggling with PTSD, Brynn must put her career on the line and her life at risk to find justice for a woman not unlike herself—haunted by her past, and caught in a vicious cycle she may never escape . . .
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Unrelenting from page 1. Couple times I had to put the brakes on myself and set the book aside. I felt anguish for Brynn, all she endured and all she stills endure, not just with her time at war, but home. I became attached to Brynn & Wilco and wanted to make everything all right. You become invested in the whole community and Ethan, OMW . There are twists, turns, sub plots and it is one wild ride. When you come to Bone Gap leave your expectations at that door, because no matter what, this will blow them wide open. I did not read book 1, but I am going to now. Thank you Susan Furlong, Kensington Books and NetGalley for this arc. All thoughts and opinions are my own.