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Darkness Lane

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Published: June 2018
Published: June 2018
Published: June 2018
Published: June 2018
SKU: SBCNFG0013
SKU: 9781464210013
SKU: 9781464210037
SKU: 9781464210020

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Overview

Random Road introduced Geneva Chase—"a reporter with a compelling voice, a damaged woman who recounts her own bittersweet story as she hunts down clues," says Library Journal—to murders straight out of a nightmare—six bodies found naked and cut to ribbons in a posh Connecticut home.

Having survived this and a personal tragedy, Geneva's story still includes alcoholism and career challenges compounded by the rocky finances of her newspaper employer. But she's working. She's fighting the urge to reconnect with a magnetic yet married lover. And she's raising a rebellious young lady who is not her daughter but a cherished legacy.

Nevertheless the newshound in Geneva spurs her to bad if not downright dangerous choices as two unrelated crimes unexpectedly collide. A fifteen-year-old-girl at her ward's high school has vanished along with her English teacher. Is this same-old, same-old, or something more? And then there's the abused woman who torched her sadistic husband, and how to keep her out of the clutches of powerful mobsters—and thus, out of the news.

Out on the crime beat, Geneva works to unravel the connection, if any, between these two disparate stories while her newspaper is put up for sale, a high-flying Hollywood production lights up the town, and her personal battles accelerate. Jarring twists and turns include charming movie stars, treacherous diamond merchants, adultery, sex traffickers, and murder. While the clock ticks and Geneva works desperately to find the missing student, she comes to the horrible realization that she's in over her head.

Darkness Lane, the second novel in the Geneva Chase Mystery Series, hurtles along at a breakneck speed where nothing is what it seems, and where art and reality collide in a terrifying climax.

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  • Case Count: Hardcover: 44, Paperback: 44, Paperback Large Print: 21
"Multiple murders and shocking twists are key components in Geneva's ultimate uncovering of the truth. The flawed but dedicated heroine anchors Kies' second mystery with a compassion that compels readers to root for both justice and redemption." — Kirkus Reviews
"Kies neatly balances breathless action with Geneva Chase's introspection and sleuthing savvy." — Publishers Weekly
"There's a solid thriller here—the key is sex trafficking—but the real pleasure is watching Geneva work. Cheer her on as she wrestles with that vodka bottle and trembles with fear as she confronts the monster behind the child-slavery ring. She's also pretty good at standing up to a newspaper publisher about to screw the help into the ground." — Don Crinklaw, Booklist
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