The Gorge
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"A bracing confluence of adventure, murder, and breathtaking scenery." — Kirkus
"Fans of backwoods suspense will find this thriller strikes the perfect balance of tense excitement and opportunities for testing their deductive skills." —BookLife
"...a fabulous read. I’d love to see more of Richard Carlyle and will be watching this author for more works of this caliber. The Gorge is most highly recommended." — Readers' Favorite
"...a fabulous read. I’d love to see more of Richard Carlyle and will be watching this author for more works of this caliber. The Gorge is most highly recommended." — Readers' Favorite
Perfect for fans of Peter Heller’s The River and Karen Dionne’s The Marsh King’s Daughter.
It is not yet spring in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Whitewater rafting season has already begun, however. Streams filled with snowmelt are pouring into the Hudson Gorge, an almost inaccessible twelve-mile canyon. But someone who knows every foot of the backcountry is stalking those who are attempting to run the Gorge as the river reaches flood stage.
Richard Carlyle, a former raft guide and veteran criminologist working with state and local police, is desperately searching for the person who has murdered two people already. Tracking the killer to a remote cabin in the Gorge, Carlyle confronts an ecoterrorist with a grudge against anyone who dares to invade his territory.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Berger (The Most Necessary Luxuries: The Mercers' Company of Coventry, 1550–1680) effectively makes use of his experience as a licensed whitewater raft guide in his impressive fiction debut, set in the Adirondack Mountains. When the Hudson Gorge, "one of the toughest whitewater runs in the northeast," becomes the scene of two murders for an unclear motive, New York's Department of Environmental Conservation taps Richard Carlyle, a professor of the history of crime who was once a guide on the river, to investigate the deaths of two guides, Art Sanders and Chris Blake. They died in apparent drowning accidents in less than a week, but evidence soon surfaces that foul play was involved. The netting that should have kept Sanders from being swept out of his boat was cut, and a log was moved into Blake's path, striking him in the face and knocking him into the river. Berger inserts scenes from the unnamed killer's perspective, ratcheting up the tension. Paul Doiron fans will be pleased. (Self-published)
