When two newlyweds are murdered in an Arizona campground, Detective Laura Cardinal is enlisted to investigate. Still reeling from a tragedy of her own, and teamed with a partner who's working her last nerve, Laura's already walking an emotional tightrope. What she discovers-a secret of a love gone bad, an underground society, and a high stakes conspiracy-could send her over the edge.
The second book featuring Arizona DPS Det. Laura Cardinal.
When two newlyweds are found murdered at an Arizona campground, Laura is called to help find the killer.
Robert L. from SASAKWA, OK wrote on 9/15/2006...
Arizona Department of Public Safety detective Laura Cardinal goes to Grand Canyon gateway town Williams, Arizona to investigate the murder of two NAU students shot to death in their tent in a campground near town. J. Carson Black tops her first race out of the gate (Darkness on the Edge of Town) with this superthriller made visceral with a suberb story of love gone bad and a well-integrated subplot of ecoterrorists who hijack a government semi-truck carrying plutonium waste. The twists and turns in this subplot draw the reader into surmising the identity of the young couple's killer, only to find out in a gut wrenching climax how the real killer was propelled to commit the crime. One of Black's strengths is the ability to bring characters into a here and now reality that makes the reader live within the book.
Shelley K. from PORTSMOUTH, VA wrote on 4/25/2006...
Very disappointing, especially considering it was recommended by a favorite author. Got about 85 pages in and had enough.