FICTION

Virtue Falls

by Christina Dodd
St. Martin's. Sept. 2014. 384p. ISBN 9781250028419. $25.99; ebk. ISBN 9781250028433. F
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With a smart, beautiful woman overly dedicated to her work and a broken FBI agent working to find a killer as main characters, Golden Heart and RITA award winner Dodd's latest novel hits just about every cliché in the romantic thriller genre. But it doesn't matter because the characters are flawed, three-dimensional, and compelling. And an earthquake and subsequent tsunami in the coastal town of Virtue Falls is an unusual and tumultuous setting for a quickly ratcheting spiral of tension that fragments into murder. Elizabeth Banner is well known, but not for her brilliance in geology. Instead, she's recognized as the child who witnessed her father kill her mother. Her ex-husband, Garik Jacobsen, suspects that Charles Banner may be innocent of the crime for which he was convicted and that the killer is still at large.
VERDICT A few secondary story lines seem extraneous and there is some occasionally overwrought dialog, but the red herrings galore and multiple third-person points of view will keep readers guessing whodunit right up to the end. For romantic suspense fans and those who enjoy tautly plotted page-turners. [See Prepub Alert, 3/17/14; 100,000-copy first printing.]
Reviewed by Charli Osborne, Oxford P.L., MI , Jul 01, 2014
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