A storm-struck island. A blood-soaked bed. A missing man. In this captivating mystery that’s perfect for fans of Knives Out, Senior Investigator Shana Merchant discovers that murder is a family affair.Thirteen months ago, former NYPD detective Shana Merchant barely survived being abducted by a serial killer. Now hoping to leave grisly murder cases behind, she’s taken a job in her fiancé’s sleepy … taken a job in her fiancé’s sleepy hometown in the Thousand Islands region of Upstate New York.
But as a nor’easter bears down on her new territory, Shana and fellow investigator Tim Wellington receive a call about a man missing on a private island. Shana and Tim travel to the isolated island owned by the wealthy Sinclair family to question the witnesses. They arrive to find blood on the scene and a house full of Sinclair family and friends on edge.
While Tim guesses they’re dealing with a runaway case, Shana is convinced that they have a murder on their hands. As the gale intensifies outside, she starts conducting interviews and discovers the Sinclairs and their guests are crawling with dark and dangerous secrets.
Trapped on the island by the raging storm with only Tim whose reliability is thrown into question, the increasingly restless suspects, and her own trauma-fueled flashbacks for company, Shana will have to trust the one person her abduction destroyed her faith in—herself. But time is ticking down, because if Shana’s right, a killer is in their midst and as the pressure mounts, so do the odds that they’ll strike again.
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Nothing like a dark and stormy night on a private island with a missing person, blood, and a cast of characters no one should trust.
Ex-NYPD Shane and her partner Tim are looking for Jasper, disappeared leaving too much blood in his bed, girlfriend slept through a murder or a staged scene and a mighty storm is delaying more cops and forensics from showing up.
Shane was kidnapped in NY by a killer named Bram and is reliving moments of it while working the case…Bram was a bit of a distraction…would have worked fine without it as the plotting was solid, the people were rich, entitled brats, the home was spooky and the suspects changed with more knowledge. Tern Island has Camilla, owner and grandmother of missing Jasper, girlfriend Abella, Bebe and hubby Miles and stepdaughter Jade, Flynn and his partner Ned and his housekeeper Norton.
Tim and Shane need to trust each other to make a case of murder without a body.
Meanwhile everyone is keeping secrets and tattling on the others.it is taut, creepy at times, edgy all the time, and definitely a bit twisted.
4 stars and red herring and I didn’t have the killer. The fiancee of Shane and the evil Bram served a purpose but I feel this book could have been done without them, Bram is used in the next book …
The backstory kept intruding with the mystery and eventually was left unresolved, a disappoint.