Something is wrong in Niceville.
A boy literally disappears from Main Street. A security camera captures the moment of his instant, inexplicable vanishing. An audacious bank robbery goes seriously wrong: four cops are gunned down; a TV news helicopter is shot and spins crazily out of the sky, triggering a disastrous cascade of events that ricochet across twenty different lives over the course of just thirty-six hours.
Nick Kavanaugh, a cop with a dark side, investigates. Soon he and his wife, Kate, a distinguished lawyer from an old Niceville family, find themselves struggling to make sense not only of the disappearance and the robbery but also of a shadow world, where time has a different rhythm and where justice is elusive.
. . .Something is wrong in Niceville, where evil lives far longer than men do.Compulsively readable, and populated with characters who leap off the page, Niceville will draw you in, excite you, amaze you, horrify you, and, when it finally lets you go, make you sorry you have to leave.
Read the first thirty-five pages. Find out why Harlan Coben calls Carsten Stroud the master of "the nerve-jangling thrill ride."
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In less than an hour the Niceville Police Department managed to ID the last person to see the missing kid. RAINY TEAGUE DOESN'T MAKE IT HOME
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(@CornerstoneRH, 12 August 2012, ebook, 400 pages, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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This is a new author for me. I bought Niceville as it was on sale for 99p and sounded interesting. I really enjoyed the book and will likely read more of the author's work in the future. Niceville is an interesting blend of horror and mystery and the town reminds me of Derry or Castle Rock in the fiction of Stephen King where something very unpleasant lurks beneath the pretty surface. Even the name of the town, Niceville sound off to me and rings alarm bells. This is an absorbing book and I got pulled further into the unsettling darkness of the town every time I read it.
