FBI Special Agent Cate Wilde is back home on a remote Pacific Northwest island when she gets the call: a teenager's skeletal remains have been found on a nearby island.
Together with Tessa Black, a childhood friend turned local deputy, Cate confronts dreary weather and bleak leads to make sense of the death. The complications pile up as Cate is distracted by the coroner on the case-and by nagging memories that draw her twenty years into the past. The remains suggest eerie similarities between this victim, and Cate and Tessa's friend Samantha, who disappeared when she was fourteen.
Cate finds herself up against closemouthed locals, buried town secrets, and even her own heart. As the case unravels, will she be able to cut through the fog and find justice for the missing and the dead?
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'I've been hauling people out to Ruby's island all night' Dick Jacobs told FBI Special Agent Cate Wilde- 1
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(Montlake Romance, 23 October 2018, e-book, 107 pages, bought from Amazon Kindle, #POPSUGARReadingChallenge, the shortest book by pages on your TBR)
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I really enjoyed Close to the Bone. There's plenty packed into this short read, almost as much as a full length thriller. I loved the fact the book is set on an island, which adds a lot of atmosphere and suspense. I also liked the hint that a tragedy from Cate's past may be linked to the bones found. This is a fast-paced, engaging thriller.