Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.” Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. The tensions ratchet up as nefarious motives and twistedĪ delightfully twisty psychological thriller perfect for fans of You and Gone Girl.Īre we not men? We are-well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).Ī zombie apocalypse is one thing. The two women’s secrets, but also skeletons in the closets of a few moreĬharacters. Thriller by shifting perspectives between Marin and Kenzie, revealing not only Hillier deepens the tale from one of simple vengeance into a psychological Suffocating guilt over her son’s disappearance into a searingly hot anger at Kidnapper may be elusive, but Kenzie, Derek’s mistress, is very real and a That Derek is having an affair, which lights a fire under Marin: The Whereabouts-or even evidence of his continued existence-the PI finds evidence But instead of finding evidence of Sebastian’s Her husband, Derek, still won't talk about the tragedy. Salon she founded, Marin now simply cuts hair, admittedly for celebrityĬlients, but she's turned over most of the business to her right-hand woman, Barely able to make it to the upscale beauty

She fantasizes about suicide, and now her best friend, Sal, Since that day, 16 months ago, Marin's life

In a Santa Claus suit offering the expensive lollipop Marin had stalled onīuying, Sebastian was easily taken. Lured away from Seattle's Pike Place Market by someone dressed The day Marin’s 4-year-old son, Sebastian, was kidnapped was the day her life stopped.

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