Casey Duncan is a homicide detective. She has worked hard all her life to get there, hiding a very nasty secret. Her best friend Diana has an ex-husband who won't leave Diana alone and she fears he might kill her someday. Diana has heard of a place they can go and live safe from the world and those after them. So when Diana is violently attacked again and Casey fears her past has come back to haunt her, she sees little choice but to go.
Lucky for Casey the town is currently in need of a detective, only problem is they need a detective because people are missing and getting killed. This new town it turns out might be more dangerous than staying where they were.
Kelley Armstrong can write a story. When I first realized that it was not her standard paranormal I have to say I was a little sad. But then I started reading and BAM I was in love with the characters and their lives. The mystery surrounding the town, the people and deaths is so well done you won't put the book down. Plus add in a sheriff you can't help but love, his mystery, sexy silent style, and wow just wow.
CITY OF THE LOST is a mystery based on a mystery and you don't see the end coming till it hits you in the face. Kelley Armstrong has written one heck of a suspense, I hope she writes more and quickly.
Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a mobster and she knows that someday this crime will catch up to her. Casey's best friend, Diana, is on the run from a violent, abusive ex-husband. When Diana's husband finds her, and Casey herself is attacked shortly after, Casey knows it's time for the two of them to disappear again.
Diana has heard of a town made for people like her, a town that takes in people on the run who want to shed their old lives. You must apply to live in Rockton and if you're accepted, it means walking away entirely from your old life, and living off the grid in the wilds of Canada: no cell phones, no Internet, no mail, no computers, very little electricity, and no way of getting in or out without the town council's approval. As a murderer, Casey isn't a good candidate, but she has something they want: She's a homicide detective, and Rockton has just had its first real murder. She and Diana are in. However, soon after arriving, Casey realizes that the identity of a murderer isn't the only secret Rockton is hidingβin fact, she starts to wonder if she and Diana might be in even more danger in Rockton than they were in their old lives.
An edgy, gripping crime novel from bestselling urban fantasy writer Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost boldly announces a major new player in the crime fiction world.
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