By Tami Hoag
ISBN-10: 0553897063
ISBN-13: 9780553897067
In her most modern mystery, New York Times bestselling writer Tami Hoag takes readers on a suspense-filled journey of shocks and twists resulting in an explosive end. it's the tale of an ex-cop, a lacking woman, and a killer locked in a race the place there will be just one winner—and the losers die attempting.
In a trailer in a Florida swamp, time is operating out for eighteen year-old Erin Seabright. A pawn in a kidnapper's terrifying online game for a ransom nobody pays, her final desire is a washed-up ex-cop who has already misplaced it all-not as soon as, yet twice.
The filthy rich international of the Palm seashore horse set turns out some distance from a cop's international within the narcotics department. a life-time in the past, undercover sheriff's detective Elena Estes labored the suggest streets and BackTop alleys, dwelling via her wits and enjoying the lengthy odds till she took one threat too many. Now Estes lives at the ragged fringe of misplaced wish and self-hatred, hiding from the previous and believing she doesn't should have a destiny. however the prior is ready again with a vengeance, and the long run is ready to turn into a race among existence and death.
A younger lady is lacking and her twelve year-old stepsister involves Estes for aid. nobody yet critical, studious Molly Seabright turns out desirous about what's occurred to her afflicted older sister. yet Molly is confident Erin is at risk. Estes has no P.I. license, no real interest in a brand new profession, and no wish to holiday her self-imposed exile. however the extra she learns in regards to the humans Erin Seabright used to be concerned with, the extra her long-dormant cop instincts come again to life.
One journey to the exhibit grounds the place Erin labored as a groom, and Estes is instantly pulled to the darkish facet of a glamorous recreation. at the back of the glittering, ultra-rich facade is an ultra-ruthless global of gear, payoffs, and soiled offers. an international of dissolute playboys and crooked horse-dealers, of royalty and rabble, of competitors and enemies. An obscenely filthy rich global the place whatever should be had for a price—including a life.
And in that global stalks a killer who will lead Estes down a dismal, twisted path of decadence and deceit, mayhem and murder—from the gilded lifetime of Palm seashore to the darkest corners of the Florida swamps, to a last show-down which may fee her every thing. A race opposed to time and evil. A race within which Estes is the darkish horse—and nobody is having a bet on her to win.
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We children were packed sweatily skin to skin and atop each other's laps in the rear seat, which reproduced in miniature the messiness of the house with this new litter of empty RC Cola and Nehi bottles, funny papers, watermelon rinds, banana peels, greasy jack handles, oil-smeared gears of assorted sizes, and wads of old Kleenex. On the floor beneath my feet I even discerned (to my intense discomfort, for I had just learned to recognize such an object) a crumpled, yellowish used condom, left there haphazardly, I was certain, by one of the older daughters' boyfriends who had been able to borrow the heap for carnal sport.
And he was: wrhen we rushed to his side we saw that he had hiked himself up in bed, and his face for the first time in many hours wore an alert and knowing expression, as if he were at least partially aware of his surroundings. He had even regained his appetite. Edmonia had put a daisy in the buttonhole of his shirt, and at some point during his amazing resurrection, she said, he had eaten part of it. "You should have heard him just now," Edmonia said, leaning over the bed. "He kept talking about going to the millpond.
Dabney agreed, saying that he looked forward to a cool glass of iced tea, and we made our way back to the house along a little path of bare earth that-wound through a field glistening with goldenrod. Then, just as we arrived at the back of the house we saw the sheriff waiting. He was standing with a foot on the running board of his Plymouth sedan; perched on its front fender was a hulkmgly round, intimidating silver siren (in those days pronounced si-reen). He was a potbellied middle-aged man with a sun-scorched face fissured with delicate seams, and he wore steel-rimmed spectacles.
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