Echoes of Terror

Skagway, Alaska, cop Katherine Ward, the heroine of this middling thriller from Soule (A Killer Past), was kidnapped at 14 and held for months by psychopath Charles Bell, who killed her parents and brother. She thought Bell would be confined to a mental hospital forever. Seventeen years later, two girls—one a neighbor and the other 16-year-old Misty Morgan, a billionaire’s daughter who arrived in Skagway on a cruise ship—are missing, possibly kidnapped. Could Bell be back at work? Katherine, often blamed for colluding with Bell by those who know her story, has kept her past a secret from most people. Now she can’t do that anymore. Bell may be evil, but not in any interesting way. And the romance that develops between the closed-up, suspicious Katherine and Vince Nanini, the billionaire’s computer expert who acted as Misty’s bodyguard before she disappeared, falls to convince. Two surprise twists at the end are one too many. (Mar.)