Nate McHale finds himself traveling toward Greystone Lake, New York, as a hurricane moves along the coast. His thoughts are on his wife Meg and daughter, Livvy, driving to the safety of her parents' home and the patients he left behind. He's traveling to attend the funeral of Lucy Bennett, his first love, whose body emerged recently in the woods after missing for fourteen years.
Although Nate has distanced himself from his hometown, the past's memories seem to blend with the present. Not good memories for it was a time of teenage angst that he regrets. Nate reminds himself that this was Greystone Lake. Home. There was death, loss, secrets, lies and rage. For the next few days, he must cope with those firends. Known as the Storm King, Nate led a group that served vigilante justice to right perceived wrongs. They called their nighttime activities thunder run. With those friends, he visits their former "clubhouse", the Night Ship. It's located along an abandoned pier and was a lively 1965 nightclub with many unscrupulous activities and tragedies. Later it became a place for Nate and Lucy to meet during their romance.
Today the air is filled with more than apprehension of the approaching storm. Current crimes causing severe property damage focus on the friends and their families including the pub owned by Nate's grandmother. These mimic the thunder runs of Nate and his friends of so long ago. Who is responsible now and why? Concurrently, authorities discover that Lucy was murdered. Who would do such a thing and hide her body?
Readers will not find a psychological thriller but rather a methodical developing mystery that draw them into the story. Well developed characterization blends with excellent writing and a complex manner. Some answers appear early with missing pieces gradually appearing to complete the story. it's a quite good read!
Although Nate has distanced himself from his hometown, the past's memories seem to blend with the present. Not good memories for it was a time of teenage angst that he regrets. Nate reminds himself that this was Greystone Lake. Home. There was death, loss, secrets, lies and rage. For the next few days, he must cope with those firends. Known as the Storm King, Nate led a group that served vigilante justice to right perceived wrongs. They called their nighttime activities thunder run. With those friends, he visits their former "clubhouse", the Night Ship. It's located along an abandoned pier and was a lively 1965 nightclub with many unscrupulous activities and tragedies. Later it became a place for Nate and Lucy to meet during their romance.
Today the air is filled with more than apprehension of the approaching storm. Current crimes causing severe property damage focus on the friends and their families including the pub owned by Nate's grandmother. These mimic the thunder runs of Nate and his friends of so long ago. Who is responsible now and why? Concurrently, authorities discover that Lucy was murdered. Who would do such a thing and hide her body?
Readers will not find a psychological thriller but rather a methodical developing mystery that draw them into the story. Well developed characterization blends with excellent writing and a complex manner. Some answers appear early with missing pieces gradually appearing to complete the story. it's a quite good read!
Okay, so right now only 1 5* rating without a review, so here is my 2* review
This is what I call 'description writing', everything is written in description form and I hate that, it's also written with the past and present format which again I hate that, then you have the 'journals' of the dead girl, what? another one of those?
This story is very very slow to unfold, you have to go through the childhoods then the high school, the bullying, the meanness of these kids, but I mainly couldn't handle the description writing and the slow slow plot to unfold, so I did what I normally wouldn't do---go to the last 2 or 3 chapters and get the entire story there, once you have the characters in place and you want to skip the description writing then go to the end
I can understand others liking this book but being the picky reader I am I want a better written story and maybe one that hasn't been done many times
This is what I call 'description writing', everything is written in description form and I hate that, it's also written with the past and present format which again I hate that, then you have the 'journals' of the dead girl, what? another one of those?
This story is very very slow to unfold, you have to go through the childhoods then the high school, the bullying, the meanness of these kids, but I mainly couldn't handle the description writing and the slow slow plot to unfold, so I did what I normally wouldn't do---go to the last 2 or 3 chapters and get the entire story there, once you have the characters in place and you want to skip the description writing then go to the end
I can understand others liking this book but being the picky reader I am I want a better written story and maybe one that hasn't been done many times
