On many occasions we see how crime novels acquire a touch of thriller based on the most personal involvement of the investigator or police officer on duty, a smart bet to end up making a whole of the corresponding case or the sinister approach that ends up encompassing everything.
However, Tawni O'Dell goes a little further. Or at least modify that way of combining-involving the protagonist with the plot to unveil.
Doctor Doyle exercises his science of forensic medicine in favor of the unveiling of all crime. But this doctor lives with his own personal demons. His past, perhaps his own that led him to medicine, always keeps him awake due to the tortuous personal circumstances in which he lived. The shadow of that time governs the personal sphere, beyond the successful and valued character.
So, when Dr. Doyle leaves his dressing gown and returns to his town, Lost Creek, on his periodic visits, he returns to live with his spirit humbled by that past materialized in every street.
But maybe everything happens for something. They say that fear is the answer to some danger. Coincidences only occur when they are foreseen in a plan, in this case a sinister plan ...
The fact that Dr. Doyle finds a corpse during one of his walks through the apparently peaceful town ends up being a narrative resource at first, although it ends up taking on a much more transcendent meaning in the end.
Lost Creek was what it was, an emerging mining town that nurtured young immigrants to enrich the mine operators. The ambition of other times was managed without measure. Revolts and summary justice against the worker insurgents. A remote story that seems to be intertwined with the corpse found by Doyle and with his own past.
A highly tense story with ramifications for what affects Doyle and what it means to the unique town of Lost Creek. Revenge, past of long shadows and blood debts ...
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