Review: Haunting and Unforgettable
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 21, 2011
This is a story that will stay with you: For years, Rachel Corbett believed that her mother's former boyfriend, a man she loved like a father, had committed suicide. What she didn't know was that Scott Johnson took another life, too. He inexplicably killed his new girlfriend before turning the gun on himself. When Corbett discovers this awful truth years later, she's compelled to investigate the tragedy. She searches for clues in Scott's past and reexamines the years he spent living with her family. How could they not have suspected that this man, seemingly so gentle, was capable of murder? Corbett ponders the chilling fact that Scott had visited her family just hours before his crime and that it could easily have been her own mother, or herself, who wound up dead. Evocative and beautifully written, A Killing in Iowa is a ghost story and a mystery all in one. I look forward to more work from this talented young writer.