Lisa Power is a tortured ghost of her former self. The author of a bestselling thriller called Thief River Falls, named after her rural Minnesota hometown, Lisa is secluded in her remote house as she struggles with the loss of her entire family: a series of tragedies she calls the "Dark Star."
Then a nameless runaway boy shows up at her door with a terrifying story: he's just escaped death after witnessing a brutal murder-a crime the police want to cover up. Obsessed with the boy's safety, Lisa resolves to expose this crime, but powerful men in Thief River Falls are desperate to get the boy back, and now they want her too.
Lisa and her young visitor have nowhere to go as the trap closes around them. Still under the strange, unforgiving threat of the Dark Star, Lisa must find a way to save them both, or they'll become the victims of another shocking tragedy she can't foresee.
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(Thomas & Mercer, 1 February 2020, ebook, 314 pages, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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This book blew me away. I thought it was incredible. The storyline took me in a direction I wasn't expecting in the last two of three chapters. Everything I thought I knew about Lisa and her experiences and what was happening was completely flipped on it's head. I love it when a writers blow me out of the water. I hate guessing correctly the outcome of a book. I love unreliable narration and twists. This is one of those books you can't stop reading when you start, sitting up long into the night and flicking through page after page because you need to know what the hell is going on. I loved it. I will definitely check out the author's other work.