Darker and deeper than Haddam's holiday series. More mature, INHO
Haddam hasn't lost her touch, she keeps you turning the pages. From the book cover: A long time ago in the small town of Hollman, PA, Liz Toliver was too smart and too shy for her good. Today she's a popular author engaged to a rock star. She has everything, including nightmares and the dreadful summer night when she was 17. It was a practical joke, by six female classmates that ended with Liz in a coma, a yound man with his throat slit and unshakeable memories that she's never forgotten, or forgiven. Now, thirty years later, she come home to visit old haunts, and play catch-up with old friends. Gregor Demarkian, retired chief of the FBI's Behavior Sciences Unit has his own questions about what really happened that night, but no one was prepared for the answers or the final outcome.
An interesting (non holiday) Gregor Demarkian, retired chief of the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit, mystery. Liz Toliver, popular author and Cnn panelist comes home after 30 years away.