Gone to Ground was
my first book by author Brandilyn Collins, and it certainly was very different
from the books I am accustomed to reading.
Lately I have been reading a lot of suspense/thriller books. However this book was not as suspense filled
as I had at first anticipated, instead I would consider it more of a psychological
thriller. It is the story of a small
town named Amaryllis that is being plagued by a serial killer, in the past
three years the killer has claimed five victims- all women, all living alone,
and all found stuffed in their closets
after the murder- and just recently a sixth victim has been found. The inhabitants of this town do not know what
to think. Amaryllis is a small town with
only a population of 1,700, everyone knows each other. The murderer must be someone from a nearby
city, who comes to Amaryllis to commit the murders and then leaves. The murderer couldn’t possibly be a resident
of this town where everyone is either friends, neighbors, or related…
…Except three women believe that the murderer is from their
town- someone close to them, and all three of these women have incriminating
evidence showing who the killer is. The
only problem is that the different evidence all points to different men. The first of these women is Cherrie Mae Devine
a sixty-two year old housecleaner. While
cleaning the mayor’s house she finds a ring in his possession- a ring that was
being worn by the last murder victim the day she was killed. The second person is Tully Phillips, seven
months pregnant, who suspects her husband to be the killer after he arrives
home from work late the night of the murder.
The last of these women is Deena Ruckland an independent, thirty-two
year old hair dresser who believes the murderer to be her mentally challenged
brother Stevie who showed up at her house the night of the murder covered in a
substance that eerily resembled blood.
On a whole I found this book fast paced and had it finished the
day after starting reading it. I was
kept at the edge of my seat the entire time not knowing who to believe the
murderer was. The one issue I did have
with this book, though, is that I did not like how much divorce was in it. I just wished they could have worked through
things.
My thanks go to The Book Club Network, Inc. for providing me
with a copy for an honest review. The
opinions are my own.
Reviewed by Nicki
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