Let the web unravel itself and try not to die in the process. After losing her mother in a freak accident, Suede Harris is trying to pick up the pieces and move on with her life. With a history of trouble, including bad relationships, alcohol, and ditching college, finishing up her criminology degree seemed like the best way to start.While catching up back home with summer courses, she joins a … summer courses, she joins a study group to keep on track, but when her friends convince her to go geocaching, a simple trip will shake up her entire world. When the only treasure they find is a human bone, it will send her on a mission fueled by personal trauma to figure out what happened to the victim.
Will she find the killer, or uncover secrets that have been long buried?
Author Note: This is book 1 of a 6 book murder mystery series. The books cannot standalone, so please be warned that you’d need to read all 6 to get the full story. Each book will release the last Thurs of the month! The town in the story is fictional, so the coordinates on the cover do NOT correlate to the murder locations. Hope you love the story.
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Great start of the new series by my favorite duo!
When group of study friends go geocaching and find buried bones, was it just a coincidence or is there more to it?
I really liked the small town setup which seems to hide lots of secrets. All introduced characters are complex and intriguing. I can’t wait to find out more about them and the secrets they are hiding!
I received an ARC of this book and am voluntarily leaving my honest review.
This storyline is so unique, I’ve never read anything like it. A study group of six students is formed by Graham. They are a mixed bag, three who have made mistakes and are still paying for them, one who’s immature and silly, another who thinks she is the bees knees and one who has no backbone and is on his knees. What brings them together…criminology and the study of a criminal and his or her crime. Graham has found himself a hobby, it keeps him out of trouble. He asks them to join him on his next Geo-caching venture. Finding themselves following coordinates and trekking through the bush on a hunt for a cache becomes an addiction. They have just brought a whole lot of attention to the town and themselves. Can’t wait for the next instalment.
Great complex investigation, while remaining romantic
The story is extremely well written, totally different from WL Knightly’s previous series, but it’s also a very good story. Here, the characters are of different ages and the heroes are young adults, which gives them both a certain inexperience and a lack of perspective at first, on what is happening around them. They experience and begin to get out of the torpor or problems in which they were or are still stuck until everything rocks.
The beginning seemed a little long to set up both the atmosphere and the characters, but the story is so dense in information that I understand the need, especially that the authors are used to well hide the suspects in the normality, and the atmosphere of a small town is perfect for that. This atmosphere seems full of secrets, investigations abandoned or not carried out in their terms in the past, pressures.
Suede wants to start again her studies in criminology that she left after the accident of her mother who disappeared (her car was found two years before in the water). His father-in-law Ted has also struggled with this disappearance. He is the detective of this sector and Suede wants to follow him in internship, in addition to her work of storage in the local newspaper, with Maggie who worked with her mother when she was a journalist.
Riley lives with his older brother who wants to become mayor, but is rather insupportable, irascible. He doesn’t take care very well of the farm and the bed and breakfast that their parents had built. Yet his brother has a good reputation, when Riley has a very bad reputation despite his efforts.
Riley and Suede meet in a study group with their mutual friend Graham to work on a criminal report.
The study group has 6 people: Graham in pairs with Jenn, David with the unbearable Kara, and Riley with Suede.
During a geocaching outing, Jenn, Graham, Riley and Suede discover human bones over the cache’s capsule: this is the beginning of a quest whose clues are scattered or by a killer or someone who seeks to denounce a crime.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book