Crosscut
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5.0 • 5 Ratings
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- $2.99
Publisher Description
School's out for ever . . .
And the high school reunion is a killer. Because something, or someone, is eliminating Evan Delaney's graduating class.
For Evan, China Lake was a tough place to grow up. But she didn't realise just how tough until, returning to the desert military base for her high school reunion, she discovers that a disturbing number of her classmates have died young.
And the night of the reunion, another one is savagely butchered. She is just the first.
There's a serial killer on the loose. One with a major axe to grind with China Lake high school graduates . . .
Evan Delaney's quick tongue and hot temper have got her into trouble before. Now she faces her most dangerous challenge yet, at the hands of a ruthless serial killer whose murderous motives have their roots in her past.
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Evan Delaney is a bit apprehensive about attending her 15-year high school reunion on the Navy base at China Lake, Calif., and with good reason: an alarming number of her classmates have died, in seemingly unrelated ways-"Car crash. ... Pneumonia. ... Cancer. Long Illness. Exposure. ... hospital fire"-and that's before one of the reunion organizers is brutally murdered. As the body count rises, Evan begins to suspect the string of deaths has something to do with her China Lake past. This fourth installment of the China Lake/Evan Delaney mystery series certainly shows the potential for a first-class thrill ride-human characters, an original plot, a crafty scientific angle and some genuine scares (dentophobes, be warned)-but, though a page-turner to the end, its strengths are obscured by too much of each: too many characters, too many backstories, too many twists and too much jargon.
