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No Woods So Dark as These
Ryan DeMarco Mysteries Series, Book 4
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Former Sergeant Ryan DeMarco's life has been spent in defiance—he's defied death, loneliness, and betrayal all while fighting the worst parts of humanity. He's earned a break, and following the devastation of their last case, DeMarco and his girlfriend Jayme want nothing more than to live quietly in each other's company. To forget the horrors they've experienced and work on making each other whole again.
But dreams of a peaceful life together are shattered when two bodies are discovered in a smoldering car in the woods, and another is found brutally mutilated nearby. Much as he'd like to leave the case to his former colleagues, dark forces are at play and DeMarco cannot escape the vortex of lies, betrayal, and desperation. He and Jayme are dragged back into the fray, where they must confront the shady dealings of a close-knit rural community.
In the highly-anticipated fourth installment in his critically-acclaimed series, Randall Silvis returns with a case that might break Ryan DeMarco for good.
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781980063667
- File size: 348730 KB
- Duration: 12:06:31
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- English
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June 29, 2020
In Silvis’s subpar fourth mystery featuring Pennsylvania state policeman turned PI Ryan DeMarco (after 2019’s A Long Way Down), Ryan and his PI girlfriend, Jayme Matson, who’s also former state police, help the police investigate a horrific triple murder in the woods. One victim was crucified on a tree, the other two burnt to a crisp. The revelation that they were a pimp and two prostitutes takes Ryan, Jayme, and the police detectives down some seedy paths. The case itself is intriguing, but there’s never any sense of why the police need to hire private detectives (or, actually, conscript them, as they can’t actually pay), nor why folks who’d left the force would volunteer to work a case for free. A ton of characters and subplots, including a police corruption case, slows the action. Long-winded prose doesn’t help (“There was no accounting for something like that, no predicting when or under what configuration of circumstances such a change would happen, but from then until now she had been his lighthouse and safe harbor”). Hopefully, Silvis will do better next time. Agent: Sandy Lu, L. Perkins Agency.
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