Synopsis: The tent door flutters in the warm breeze, opening towards the silent woods beyond. A silk eye mask lies on top of the empty sleeping bag, blood-red spots ruining the cream fabric…
When a woman disappears from Forest Pines campsite, Detective Morgan Brookes scrambles a search party. Sara Fletcher has never missed a lunch date with her best friend and when Morgan finds a large rip in Sara’s tent, she knows that something terrible must have happened. About to lose hope after hours combing through the acres of dense forest, the excited bark of a tracker dog leads Morgan to female remains, partially covered by leaves and dirt – but the bones don’t belong to Sara.
Morgan trawls through missing persons files until she finds three cold cases with chilling similarities – three other victims dating back twenty years who were taken from campsites while they slept, by a killer the police called the Travelling Man. The post-mortems indicate he kept them alive for 72 hours, meaning every second is crucial to find Sara alive.
Morgan’s team is terrified that this twisted murderer has returned. But Morgan also can’t ignore the fact that a merciless killer from her own past has recently escaped from prison… Could they be chasing the wrong man? If she’s correct, how deep will she have to dig to save Sara and other innocent women like her before time runs out for them all?
My Rating: 5/5
My Review: I am now on book 5 of the series having read them back to back and wasn’t sure which was this next book would go. This time around a woman Sara Fletcher, disappears from Forest Pines campsite. Her friend reports her missing and when Ben and Morgan show up and see the rip in Sara’s tent they fear the worst. When sniffer dogs get to work they come across female remains but they don’t belong to Sara…and so the case is off and running.
Once they start working on the current missing case, alongside the case of the remains they soon get wind of a retired detective that is convinced this is the work of a killer he named The Travelling Man. That unravels a whole new avenue for they to look into and the possibilities are endless. During the investigation a third murder of an older woman keeps them all on their toes and worrying that they wont catch the person responsible.
I have said that in previous books not EVERY storyline can involve Morgan being the link to it all. Although this isn’t necessarily the case in this book we see an element of her personal life be played into the story which totally made sense. This latest book was very fast paced and I absolutely loved it. We see the return of all my favourite people and the end of the book meant there was no time to waste and I just had to move onto book 6!
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