Review: Excellent mystery
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2013
I really didn't know how I was going to rate this.  It starts out like a promising ghost story after  Lucas Tunney escapes his disastrous life in Seattle only to first end up desolate in the desert.  There trouble starts when he is terrified after being visited by a young girl's ghost or did he?.  Rescued and taken to the fairly nearby town of Cutter Grove, he finds an idyllic life to soak his wounded life.  Patrick Dakin then weaves a long placid study developing the characters of this Southern California town.  Almost too long but enjoyable.  But the quiet life Lucas savors turns topsy turvey with disappearances of young girls, too many love interests, trust and distrust from the locals and the law.  Quiet this town isn't.  As the story developed into a whopper of a mystery or mysteries, I cursed Lucas who is the king of bad decisions.  Pride, shame, guilt guide this anti-hero into one situation after another.  I won't begin to describe the story, too long here.  Patrick Dakin takes the reader on a wild ride of paranormal, romance,  crime, suspicion all in the backdrop of a seemingly sleepy little town.  I loved it and was guessing to the end.