A new spine-tingling thriller from the bestselling master of edge-of-your-seat stories.
When Casey Duncan first arrived at Rockton, the off-the-grid, isolated community built as a haven for people running from their pasts, she had no idea what to expect. There are no cell phones, no internet, no mail and no way of getting in or out without the town council's approval. She certainly didn't expect to become the town homicide detective. But, the very last thing she expected was for the council to drop a dangerous criminal into their midst without a plan to keep him imprisoned. And she never thought that she'd have to be responsible for him.
The longer Oliver Brady stays in town, the more people seem to die around him. When evidence begins piling up that someone inside Rockton is working as his accomplice, Casey races to figure out who exactly Brady is and what crimes he's truly responsible for committing.
With dangerous secrets and heart-stopping twists, This Fallen Prey is Kelley Armstrong's most gripping thriller yet.
I'm a huge Kelley Armstrong fan, and I'm usually the first to tout her amazing character development and twisty storylines. I also love the Casey Duncan series, the characters, and the setting of Rockton. However, every series has its weak link, and This Fallen Prey was it.
Loaded down with too many plot twists, this book was mostly a series of one incident interrupting another, interrupting another. The solution to the mystery seemed somewhat implausible, particularly the fact that Casey ever puts the pieces together.
Still, an iffy Kelley Armstrong book is better than most other books to me, and the characterizations (which are really what I go for in a book) were dead on. I still love following around Casey, Eric, and Will, even if the path got a little too far into rough terrain this time around. The mysteries of Rockton, the town itself, still enthrall, so I'm hoping the next one eases up on the distractions and the overburdened mystery plots, and goes for something a little more solid.
Sticking with this series, but unimpressed with this installment.
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