This Fallen Prey
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4.4 • 71 Ratings
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Publisher Description
When homicide detective Casey Duncan (now Casey Butler) first arrived in Rockton, she had no idea what to expect. It's a tiny town hidden in the Yukon, built as a haven for people running from their pasts. No cell phones. No internet. No mail. And no way of getting in or out without the town council’s approval. Still, the very last thing she expected was for the council to drop a serial killer into their midst. Literally drop him off, without a plan to keep him imprisoned or a plan to keep the other residents safe. That part is up to Casey and Sheriff Eric Dalton.
Of course Oliver Brady claims he's being set up. Tensions rise as the town divides between those who think he's innocent and those who think he's too dangerous to simply be locked in a cell. Someone's going to set him free. Or someone's going kill him. Before that can happen, Casey must figure out who exactly Brady is and what crimes he’s truly responsible for committing.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the outset of bestseller Armstrong's gripping third novel set in the Canadian Yukon (after 2017's A Darkness Absolute), the council members who manage Rockton, the off-the-grid refuge for those needing to disappear, receives Oliver Brady, an accused murderer they've agreed to take in exchange for a large sum of money from a classified source. Unprepared to house a dangerous criminal, Rockton's residents scramble to build a facility to imprison him. But they're split on whether Brady is innocent and being mistreated, or a risk to others; riots, maybe even a lynching, threaten to erupt. When Brady escapes with the help of a town insider, he leaves a trail of carnage in his wake, and Det. Casey Butler and her boss, Eric Dalton, face difficult decisions and the perils of the wilderness in their effort to restore peace and security to Rockton. The empathetic central characters grapple with the nature of violence and the choices they're willing to make to protect loved ones. Armstrong delivers surprising twists and keeps readers guessing about who the next victim might be.
Customer Reviews
Rockton is the most isolated small town with the biggest secrets.
Rockton, a small, off-grid town in nowhere, Yukon, Canada. Although, most new residents don’t even know it’s location. They are victims of crime or criminals that have paid a private, enterprising council for refuge. The law of the town consists of a sheriff who grew up in the area, his relatively new detective, and a medic/deputy who served in the army rangers. These 3, generally don’t even know who is victim and who is the criminal, the council keeps that information to themselves. They are just supposed to stop the residents from fleeing into the wilderness and from killing each other. No-one tells them how to look after the serial killier who was just dumped on them, he even came with a list of his crimes, bound and gagged. Trouble is there is only 1 small, jail cell and no prison guards, then he escapes and the bodies start piling up.