What happened to Sadie Nettleton’s twin sister at the psychiatric hospital all those years ago?
Sadie Nettleton fled Slaughter Creek ten years ago, leaving behind the only home she’d ever known — and the only man she ever loved. Unable to cope with her sister’s madness, or the terrible secret she and her sister share, Sadie swore never to return. But when her grandfather is murdered, and her … and her sister charged with the crime, Sadie has no choice but to come back and face the ghosts of the past…
For Sheriff Jake Blackwood, time has not dimmed the love he felt for Sadie Nettleton — or the pain of her leaving. Now that she’s back, he’s determined to help her uncover the truth about her grandfather’s death and what happened to her sister at the asylum. As their investigation leads them deeper into a world of secrets, lies, and betrayal in Slaughter Creek, Sadie becomes the target of a madman who will do anything to keep the truth buried. Jake would give his life to protect Sadie. But can he again risk giving her his heart?
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From the prequel we find out: Norma and Ben Nettleton had decided to move to Slaughter Creek to raise there twin daughters she was pregnant with after Ben had a round of bad luck and had lost his job. They came to be near her parents who had moved there three years before and claimed the town was full of love and kindness. Norma immediately went into premature labor as soon as she drove into town. Ben had been stressed out over the impending birth of his children for fear that one of them will have inherited a genetic disease from his side of the family like his sister had.
After the twins are born Sadie is a normal happy baby but Amelia screams and cries and nothing can console her. When the girls are two Norma decides to take Amelia in to be checked and realizes that she isnt the child in town showing these behaviors.
Now its present day and we find out that Sadie’s parents were killed in a car accident when her and Amelia were 3. They went to live with here grandparents where Amelia got worse and spent many years in and out of mental institutions. Sadie had been in love with her childhood friend Jake Blackwood but after something traumatic happens she leaves Slaughter Creek hoping to never have to set foot in it again. She went on to college and a life in San Francisco and became a psychiatric counselor for children. Everything is going well until she gets a call that Amelia has killed their grandfather.
Jake Blackwood has moved back to town with his daughter and is the sheriff of Slaughter Creek. One of the reason’s he moved back is to find out what happened to his father 10 years ago. He is the first on the scene at the grisly murder and has to take Amelia into custody. When Sadie shows up to take care of the funeral and see her sister to find out what is going on it turns into a quest of not only what happened to her grandfather but also what has been going on at the mental institution that Amelia’s been in and out of when people that were both patients and staff there when Amelia was start dying.
This was a very complex mystery that keeps you guessing to the very end
I want to give this book 2 and 3/4 stars. It started off as an interesting read.. twin sisters, one sane, one not.
Amelia is the disturbed sister since mid childhood and years later is still drugged and seeing doctors and locked up for misbehaving. And she has different personalities. Her sister left right after high school and kept in touch with her grandfather about Amelia.
It picks up speed with the death of the grandfather supposively at Amelia’s hands. The twin returns to find out the truth and runs into the sheriff…her old boyfriend This is the part that didn’t work for me and became a farce by the end. Jake, the sheriff, still hot for Sadie (sane twin), still looking for his missing Dad, is okay. Sadie seems okay but the chemistry is not….two people dealing with multiple deaths, Amelia missing, rumors about experiments and yet time to go hot and heavy. And Sadie, how many times do you need to be hit, drugged, kidnapped and keep relying on your sheriff Jake??? !!
It becomes very stilted toward the end of the book as if the author wasn’t sure how to end it and deal with the relationships.
Skip this book
This was my first Rita Herron book and it won’t be my last! I actually bought the whole Slaughter Creek Series.
If you’ve read any of my reviews than you know that I never go into great detail or give anything away because I feel the reader needs to take this journey all by themselves without any influence from me.
Dying to Tell is the first book in the series. I’m only giving the book 4 stars because its the first book in the series and I don’t like to set the bar so high that the next books fall short.
I love romantic suspense because it has a little bit of everything! There were great characters, which I’m sure will appear in the whole series. There were thrills abound, some even unexpected! There were some sex scenes, but in my opinion it was just enough…I’m not a gotta have sex scenes in every chapter, I’m in it for the suspense.
If your looking for a book full of sex, than move on, but if your looking for a great read with great characters, even some evil characters, thrills, unexpected events, a couple sex scenes that you need to read this book.
I’m off to start Her Dying Breath Book 2 in the series…stayed tuned for my next review.