"Is the murderer one you don't expect?"
Reviewed by Sharon Salituro
Posted August 1, 2018
Thriller Psychological
Gemma is just getting back to work from her maternity leave.
As much as she hated to leave her daughter, she just could
not wait to get back to her job as a police officer. First
day back and already she and her partner Finn get a call
about a break-in. But they did not know once they got to the
scene it was a murder. They find the victim up against a tree with a knife wound.
Little did they know that it was a famous author that was at
a private school giving lectures to students. There is a
note stuck in his mouth that says this is only the
beginning. So do they have a serial killer on the loose? So
the investigation starts with interviewing the English
teachers at the school. All three of the teachers do not
have alibis for where they were when he was murdered. They
also spoke with Lila who had known the victim since college.
There is little Lila can offer to help in this
investigation, other than Delaware Fuente didn't want
anyone to know his real name. There are also some other strange things going on at this
private school. It seems that there is someone calling
themselves the Grimm Reaper. Whoever this person is, finds
out certain things about a student and blackmails them into
doing something bad, or the Grimm will tell their secrets.
Gemma somehow doesn't feel that these two are connected.
Gemma is going to try and figure both of these out. While dealing with all of this, Gemma also has to take care
of her baby and Brody her boyfriend. Brody was offered a new
job, but Gemma doesn't like the people that he would be
working for. Gemma's problem with them is she feels they
are crooked. A SEASON TO LIE is a great book by Emily Littlejohn.
Littlejohn writes a real great page turning. This is the
kind of book that once you start reading it, you just don't
want to put it down. I think I read this book in two days. I
really like how Littlejohn showed all sides of Gemma's
life. Women really can juggle family and a career. So since summer might get here sometime, you might want to
pick A SEASON TO LIE up and sit outside in the sun and read
away.
SUMMARY
In Emily Littlejohn's follow-up to her acclaimed debut
Inherit the Bones, a twisted killer stalks his prey in
the dead of winter. On a cold dark night in February, as a blizzard shrieks
through Cedar Valley, police officer and new mother Gemma
Monroe responds to an anonymous report of a prowler at
the local private high school, The Valley Academy. In her
idyllic Colorado small town, Gemma expects the call was
just a prank by a bored teenager. But there in the snow lies the savaged body of a man
whose presence in town was meant to be a secret. And a
disturbing message left by his killer promises more death
to come. This is only the beginning . . . Nothing is as it seems in Cedar Valley and stories, both
fact and fiction, ensnare Gemma as her investigation
moves from the halls of an elite academy to the forests
that surround Cedar Valley. Against a backdrop of bleak winter weather, stymied by
those who would lie to protect what is dearest to them,
Gemma hunts a ruthless killer before he strikes again in
A Season to Lie.
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