Poison Town played out like an action packed thriller movie
in my head. This is the first book I
have read by Creston Mapes and it did not disappoint. I liked getting to know Jack Crittendon and
his family and friends. Jack is really struggling with forgiveness
and fear since the ordeal when his wife was kidnapped. This is causing problems in his and Pam’s
marriage. While that and more are going
on in his personal life, he is having car trouble and goes to his mechanics. While there he learns that Galen, the father,
has been really sick. While Galen was at
the hospital someone had tried to poison him.
This sets off a chain of events where Jack, who is an investigative
reporter by profession, is trying to help his friends search for answers about
their town being poisoned from a nearby factory. Jack and Derrick, his reporter
friend/partner, begin to uncover some very shady dealings and a lot of
corporate greed with people who really want this story silenced, that they will
stoop to do anything to keep this quiet, including murder. There is a lot of stuff going on in this
story and the last 80 pages or so had me on the edge of my seat. There
are also quite a few characters, yet the author made them all stand out and we
even got to know the minor ones well. This story takes place in my home state of
Ohio which made the story even creepier for me.
This is a second in the series and even though it is can be read as a
standalone, the first book does deal with Pam’s kidnapping. I have not read the first one, but I do plan
on going back and reading it. At the end
of the book we get a sneak peak at the third Crittendon File. I am looking forward to reading that one as
well. I received this book from The Book
Club Network and the opinions are my own.
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