Hunting Ground
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Fifteen years ago, Hector Lewis’s wife and young daughter vanished without a trace. People have long thought he was responsible, but the man he knows is behind their disappearance still walks free. As a police officer, he is sworn to uphold the law. But he has seen how little justice there is in the world. And when a newcomer’s arrival sparks a harrowing series of crimes, Hector finds himself in a race to catch a man he is convinced is a killer.
Evelyn Hutto knows what it is to be prey. She moved west to start over. But the remote town of Raven’s Gap, Montana, is not as quiet and picturesque as it appears. The wild borderlands of Yellowstone National Park are home to more than one kind of predator. Women are going missing, and Evelyn’s position at the local museum unearths a collection of Native American art steeped in secrets. As she traces the threads of the past and the present, she finds them tied to one man.
Hector is a man obsessed with finding answers. Evelyn is a woman with secrets of her own. As winter whittles the land to bone and ice, the body count rises, and both become locked in a deadly game of cat and mouse with a dangerous man. A man who is as cunning as he is charismatic. A man whose new hunting season is only just beginning.
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Holloway (Once unto the Breach) travels familiar terrain in this unremarkable serial killer novel. Evelyn Hutto has moved from Georgia, where she survived a traumatic experience that left her wary of all men, to Raven's Gap, Mont., to work as the assistant collections manager at the Park County Museum. Unfortunately for her, the local bookstore owner, Jeff Roosevelt, is a predator, who views meeting Evelyn as a "good omen" that reawakens his misogynistic, murderous tendencies. Jeff's violent streak isn't a complete secret; police officer Hector Lewis, who's nearing retirement, is still hoping to find evidence to implicate him in the disappearance, 15 years earlier, of Lewis's wife and daughter. The plot unfolds from the perspectives of these three main characters. Jeff's chapters open, heavy-handedly, with quotes from such notorious serial murderers as Albert Fish and Jeffrey Dahmer. Readers should be prepared for minimal suspense. Neither the prose nor the characters leave much of an impression.