Andi Oliver Novel
2 total works
There is ?suspense on every page?(Cleveland Plain Dealer) in this follow-up to Biting the Moon? now available in paperback.
In Martha Grimes?s acclaimed novel Biting the Moon, amnesiac drifter Andi Oliver sought the one man who held the key to her past. Now, Andi continues from one small town to the next, surviving the dangerous expanse of the Western plains, until she finds her mission?and menace?in Dakota. Taking a job at Klavan?s pig farming facility, Andi learns the gruesome truth of modern livestock management. As she begins to uncover the even darker secrets about Klavan?s sister facility, Big Sun, a stranger from her past comes to the surface? demanding information of which Andi has no memory.
In Martha Grimes?s acclaimed novel Biting the Moon, amnesiac drifter Andi Oliver sought the one man who held the key to her past. Now, Andi continues from one small town to the next, surviving the dangerous expanse of the Western plains, until she finds her mission?and menace?in Dakota. Taking a job at Klavan?s pig farming facility, Andi learns the gruesome truth of modern livestock management. As she begins to uncover the even darker secrets about Klavan?s sister facility, Big Sun, a stranger from her past comes to the surface? demanding information of which Andi has no memory.
She didn t know who she was, where she was from or how she got there, only that she is in a Santa Fe bed and breakfast alone and that the owner says her father carried her in, asleep.Daddy - she immediately knows that the man is not her father. She takes his jacket, money and the gun hidden in the trunk of his car and heads for the mountains, sensing safety in their forbidding presence. Months later, she walks down from the mountains into Santa Fe, and into the life of fourteen-year-old Mary Dark Hope. They begin to realise the only way she will be free is to find the man who abducted her. In a succession of fast-moving episodes they move towards the inevitable and harrowing confrontation.