Bitter Truth: A Beacon Falls Thriller Featuring Lucy Guardino

Early in Thriller Award–winner Lyons’s entertaining fifth Beacon Falls thriller (after 2017’s Gone Dark), former FBI agent Lucy Guardino checks her phone before heading for bed and finds three missed messages from her old friend Bill Beachey, sheriff of Magruder County, Idaho. This remote mountainous area is known for having “the least miles of paved roads per capita... in the entire US of A” and “the highest concentration of wolves, bighorn sheep, and mountain lions in the lower forty-eight.” When she contacts Bill’s wife, she learns that he has gone missing. Lucy and her husband, Nick, immediately head for Idaho to join the search for the sheriff. “Somewhere in that unrelenting sea of green,” Lucy thinks, “Bill was lost or hurt or being held against his will... or dead.” As Lucy digs deeper, she realizes that Bill may have uncovered a serial killer among the genial local inhabitants. The plot spins along at a good clip, providing a full complement of thrills, but the mystery’s solution is all too evident. [em](BookLife) [/em]