Description

A strikingly complicated and atmospheric crime story from Edgar Award–winning writer Meg Gardiner, Ransom River includes a seriously problematic, persuasive heroine, a murder trial, and the long-unsolved secret it exposes.Rory Mackenzie is juror number seven on the high-profile murder case in her neighborhood of Ransom River, California. After abandoning its surfeit of catastrophe and regret and the specter of the troubled past that threatened to disrupt the town’s tranquil act, It’s a location she promised not to visit again. Amazing however protected, Rory has often felt as an outsider. When both her job goals and her romance with a childhood buddy, undercover policeman Seth Cooler, were damaged in a tragic incident she retreated into himself.