Review: buy it...read it
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 25, 2012
Aubrey is a solid, no nonsense, do the right thing, well trained (Navy) woman, who demands justice and is ready to get it anyway she can.  Joe is warm and likable. They make a great couple. All of the characters in this book are extremely well developed and interesting.  Hard to describe the book or the style of writing...it's different.  There is a steady pace to the book that never lets up.  The story just pushes forward, holding our interest, planting suspicion in our minds, while revealing bits and pieces of things to come.  Even though there are no huge action scenes, the pace is relentless, and the writing is excellent.  Everything takes place in a tiny, backwoods, off the map, swampy, woodsy, southern kind of place, along a gravel road.  Creepy all by itself.  It's the kind of place that even if you see it you make yourself look away and try to pretend it was never there.  Its full of inbreeding and native people who have been there for as long as anyone can remember.  Like I said, creepy.  Secrets abound.  Verbal pacts and agreements that are made and kept between clans.  Death to those who dig too deep or break with tradition.  Aubrey walks into this nest of craziness, clean and untouched and everything changes.  Again, creepy (mostly because of the environment) but realllly good.