Beyond the shores of Hope’s Peak, North Carolina, evil waits as his next victim approaches. He’ll make her a princess like the others…
Detective Jane Harper can’t shake the image of the young woman discovered in a field―eyes closed, a crown of woven vines on her head. She expects macabre murders like this in her native San Francisco, not here. Jane and her partner, Stu, vow to catch the killer, but in this town, that’s easier said than done. The police department is in the grips of a wide-reaching scandal that could topple the entire force, and Jane and Stu face a series of dead ends. Until they meet Ida Lane.
Ida knows too well the evil that lurks in the cornfields. Tortured by her mother’s murder years before, Ida is paralyzed by the fear that she could be next. As the killer grows bolder, Jane must persuade Ida to use her remarkable gifts to help in the investigation. It’s a decision that brings them closer to the killer…maybe too close.
Some good writing but plot and characters are weak and trite. As a way to welcome you to Hope’s Peak, North Carolina, we start with a brutally slain girl in a cornfield. It happens close to this small tourist town where every so often a black teenaged or early-twenties girl gets brutally raped and murdered.
I enjoyed this book immensely I enjoyed this book immensely.
Details, Plot, and Dialogue Hurt Crime Genre Thriller “Hope’s Peak” sounded promising from the ad blurbs, but unfortunately, it did not live up to its billing. Here’s the good and the not-so-good, without spoilers: