Tami Hoag
Netgalley Review
Amazon Blurb -
Dana Nolan was a promising young TV
reporter until a notorious serial killer tried to add her to his list of
victims. Nearly a year has passed since surviving her ordeal, but the physical,
emotional,and psychological scars run deep. Struggling with the torment of
post-traumatic stress syndrome, plagued by flashbacks and nightmares as dark as
the heart of a killer, Dana returns to her hometown in an attempt to begin to
put her life back together. But home doesn’t provide the comfort she expects.
Dana’s harrowing story and her return to small town life have rekindled police and media interest in the unsolved case of her childhood best friend, Casey Grant, who disappeared without a trace the summer after their graduation from high school. Terrified of truths long-buried, Dana reluctantly begins to look back at her past. Viewed through the dark filter of PTSD, old friends and loved ones become suspects and enemies. Questioning everything she knows, refusing to be defined by the traumas of her past and struggling against excruciating odds, Dana seeks out a truth that may prove too terrible to be believed…
Dana’s harrowing story and her return to small town life have rekindled police and media interest in the unsolved case of her childhood best friend, Casey Grant, who disappeared without a trace the summer after their graduation from high school. Terrified of truths long-buried, Dana reluctantly begins to look back at her past. Viewed through the dark filter of PTSD, old friends and loved ones become suspects and enemies. Questioning everything she knows, refusing to be defined by the traumas of her past and struggling against excruciating odds, Dana seeks out a truth that may prove too terrible to be believed…
*****
Dana Nolan is a fighter. She never
thought of herself as one. The
pretty popular blond girl who dated the high school football player, she was on
her way to success. A new reporter just getting started, when she's
kidnapped by a sick killer who tortures and rapes her before trying to finish
her off. Dana is the only survivor of this monster.
After a year of convalescing and therapy she is headed back to her
childhood home. Certainly not the happy go lucky gal any longer, she
categorizes herself as "before Dana" and "after Dana".
She is struggling with PTSD, as well as a brain injury which results in
her having no memory of the incident let alone if she shut the water or how to
even navigate the home she grew up in. Family and friends are strangers
to her now.
Police are wanting to talk to her about
the possibility of her kidnapper also having something to do with her best
friend from childhood, Casey Grant's disappearance. As she tries to recall what
happened that last day the two were together, disturbing pieces start coming
back. Dana is finding she feels she can't trust anyone. Solving
this mystery may just be her undoing.
This was a great book! First time
reading Tami, and I loved it. I was trying to figure it out all the way
to the end. If I have but one critique, it was Detective Hardy. I know he
was supposed to be rough and gruff, but I found him a bit to hard on Dana
knowing full well the atrocities she endured. Read this book people if
you love to be on the edge of your seat and guessing to the end!
4 cannolis
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