Sallie Bissell

This book was a long time in coming. I simply can't understand why SB is not more popular. I think her publishers is not pushing her to the right crowd. She should be along side Chelsea Cain, and early LKH. Mary Crow is not some frilly, little thing and I think that SB is worthy of hanging with the big guns for real. her novels are excellent, every time, start to finish. Does anyone remember that series about two brothers who were rock climbers, one was a lawyer, one kind of a criminal? Those novels were great! Where is the guy? who knows! but I think that Sallie is right up there with Nevada Barr and should get a lot more recognition.… (mehr)

Mary “Killer” Crow is going home to North Carolina. There the tough young Cherokee prosecutor and her two closest friends will hike a beautiful but demanding wilderness trail.

They will be followed into the mountains by a man obsessed with revenge. And they will become the prey of another man, a ruthless predator, who thrills to the hunt.

Soon they will be pushed to the limits of their endurance — and beyond — as they discover their own chilling capacity for loyalty and violence...… (mehr)

The Mary Crow series is another one I have followed from the beginning though it has been a few years since her last installment. Mary Crow is a Cherokee lawyer whose own mother was killed many years ago, leading her to her vocation. She is staunch defender of the innocent and a ferocious prosecutor of the guilty. In this novel she is running for District Attorney, when she becomes involved in the twenty year unsolved case of a murdered girl.

A good look at how being a suspect, even if not officially, haunt the lives of the four young boys involved. How involved they were is the question, especially since one of the boys. Zach was a bit older and autistic. Also shows how the media convicts even without evidence just supposition and people's expressed opinions and how small minded some people are towards those who are different. When new evidence surfaces things in town will ratchet up again, once again causing some to once again strike out and Zack, now a grown man physically if not mentally, and his mother Grace.

Good solid storyline, well rounded characters, and an interesting case.

ARC from NetGalley.… (mehr)