High drama in Tennessee begins Lindsey's night as she closes up her restaurant. The deputy who escorts her to the bank with her takings is assaulted by a youngster with a stun gun. Lindsey should have run to phone for help, but her instinctive reaction to rush to Deputy Jeff's aid gets her immobilised and kidnapped in a car. She engineers a driver error which crashes the car down a ravine - not the best option, but at least the driver won't be taking her anywhere.

Sure that the kidnap was planned, Lindsey, resilient from her days as a stubborn battered child, puts her head together with Jeff and they try to piece together the reasons. She's on a crutch but she insists on opening her restaurant in the town of Bell's Springs. The sheriff is her brother-in-law and she has good support. But someone from her past is not finished with her yet, and the small town becomes more claustrophobic and sinister than she could have believed. She has a suppressed MEMORY OF MURDER and doesn't even know who the victim was - but someone does.

If this tale had been set in a city, CCTV would have picked up the bad guys immediately so a camera would have been first on my shopping list. The amount of attacks on law enforcement officers are surprising as was the amount of times that Lindsey is glad that God had led her to this town. Me, I'd have gone somewhere safe.

A lot of MEMORY OF MURDER is set in hospitals or police interview rooms, so we don't see as much of the state of Tennessee as I'd have liked. The romance element necessarily takes second place to the safety of the people concerned and their recovering in hospital beds, which they do a lot, but Ramona Richards does flag the attraction from the start of her tale so we are not too surprised when it turns affectionate. Details of the current-day and cold case police work are well supplied and EMT and rescue procedures are also well explained. Less a romance and more a tale of suspense, this adventure may appeal to those who like off-beat crime stories.