Item: City of the Lost
Rating: 5.00
Author: justine_manzano

by Kelley Armstrong

Welcome to Rockton: a secret town cut off from the rest of the world. If you need a place to hide, this is the perfect place to start again. There's just one catch. You can't leave. Even if there's a killer on the loose.

Detective Casey Duncan has a dark past, and it's about to catch up with her. When her best friend Diana is attacked by an abusive ex, the two women realise they have to disappear, fast. Diana's heard of a hidden town that's so remote it's almost impossible to reach. A town that desperately needs a new detective.

Casey has barely arrived in Rockton when a body is discovered. A man's been murdered and there's no time to waste. Casey's job won't be easy: everyone in town has a secret. Meanwhile her boss, Sheriff Eric Dalton, is a brooding, troubled man who's hard to read and even harder to please.

With no chance of help from the outside world, Casey must rely on her wits and experience to solve the case. But she's running out of time. Rockton's killer is on the hunt, and this deep in the wilderness, no one is safe.

Gripping, fast-paced and atmospheric, City of the Lost is the brilliant new thriller from international bestselling author Kelley Armstrong.

Once again, I find myself singing the praises of a Kelley Armstrong book. I have so much fun with her characters and her twisty plots! Armstrong hits it out of the park again with a suspenseful story that kept me guessing until the very end. I thought I had everything figured out two different times, and I was wrong, but once the killer is discovered, the clues have been there the whole time. That's what you expect from a well-written mystery. Casey, the book's main character, is a realistic female character - strong, but with vulnerability. Her main love interest is as complex as all of the love interests in Armstrong's books. You have to know him to start to appreciate him, just as the character does. The town they are in provides some great opportunities for story mining, and I can't wait to see what Armstrong comes up with for book 2. Great. I needed another series to obsess over... ;)

City of the Lost (Rockton, #1)

by Kelley Armstrong

Reviewed by justine_manzano on Aug 31, 2016

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