Regan Landry is a journalist working on a profile of Lester Ray Barnes, who had just been released from death row after it was learned that he was convicted on faulty evidence. Now, long after Landry begins her profile, Barnes disappears at the same time a string of grisly crimes are committed on the Outer Banks. Landry teams up with an FBI officer and they travel to the North Carolina coast to investigate.
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Comments Off on Mariah Stewart. Final Truth. New York: Random House, 2006.
Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Coast, Novels in Series, Stewart, Mariah, Suspense/Thriller
Special Agent Steven Thatcher is on the trail of a serial killer who is targeting cheerleaders in the fictional Raleigh suburb of Pineville. In between chasing criminals, Thatcher, a widower, finds time to care for his three sons. Worried about his eldest son, he meets with the boy’s teacher, Jenna Marshall, and the sparks fly. Their romantic involvement becomes especially complicated when it turns out that the killer may be eyeing Jenna as his next victim.
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Comments Off on Karen Rose. Have You Seen Her? New York: Warner Books, 2004.
Filed under 2000-2009, 2004, Piedmont, Romance/Relationship, Rose, Karen, Suspense/Thriller, Wake
Lucas Jordan is a successful profiler for the FBI, using his psychic abilities to track down missing people. When a string of grisly murders hit Golden, N.C., a fictional mountain town, Lucas is called to the case. The psychopathic killer keeps Lucas guessing throughout the book, and raises the stakes when he turns his sights on people close to the detective.
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Comments Off on Kay Hooper. Hunting Fear. New York: Bantam Books, 2004.
Filed under 2000-2009, 2004, Hooper, Kay, Mountains, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Suspense/Thriller
Andrew Thomas is hiding out in Alaska, framed for a crime he didn’t commit. But he can’t lay low forever. When people close to him start disappearing and there is a killing spree in his home town of Davidson, N.C., Thomas is forced out of hiding, certain that one of his old enemies is on the loose. Thomas returns to North Carolina and chases the bad guys all the way to a dramatic showdown on Ocracoke Island.
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Comments Off on Blake Crouch, Locked Doors. New York: St. Martin’s, 2005.
Filed under 2000-2009, 2005, Crouch, Blake, Hyde, Mystery
Best-selling novelist Patricia Cornwell sets this mystery in Charlotte, “a city of ambition and change.” During an especially hot summer in the Queen City, a number of tourists are gruesomely murdered, and all are left with the same mark of an hourglass on their bodies. A serial killer is clearly at work. Police chief Judy Hammer and her deputy Virginia West battle city politics while they work with young Charlotte Observer reporter Andy Brazil to uncover the facts of the case. As the police procedural unfolds, Cornwell describes the physical and cultural landscape of North Carolina’s largest city.
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Comments Off on Patricia Cornwell. Hornet’s Nest. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1996.
Filed under 1990-1999, 1996, Cornwell, Patricia, Mecklenburg, Mystery, Piedmont
