2018 Minotaur Books
359 pgs.
(12:11) Unabridged Audio read by Terese Plummer
Adult Murder Mystery
Finished 3/13/2019
Goodreads rating: 4.07 - 4010 ratings
My rating: 3 (4 with some parts a 2....)
Setting: Contemporary wilds of northern Canada
First line/s: "The season may have officially started two months ago, but it isn't really spring in Rockton until we bury our winter dead."
My comments: I have put a quick synopsis with all sorts of spoilers at the end of this brief review.
Most of this novel takes place in the forest outside Rockton, with Casey and Dalton and their dog, Storm, doing a lot of running around, fighting all sorts of prey - human and animal - discovering one body after another and doing a great deal of swearing. For some this has probably been quite exciting to read, for me it got a little tedious. Way too much for me about Storm, the dog. The also pay a lot of attention to taking care of wounded forest animals, which I discover is definitely not my thing, either. Ms. Armstrong also is writing Casey as the brains of the police department, making Dalton more of a patsy, IMHO. The cliffhanger ending is frustrating. But of course I'll read the next installment asap....as much frustration as I have, I also love Rockton!
To remember before starting next in the series: This Fallen Prey ends on a bit of a cliffhanger. Rockton has been given a supposed serial killer, Oliver Brady, to guard for six months. He escapes into the forest with Val (the community "leader" and only person who can communicate with the council) as a hostage. (Note: Val ends up on Brady's side, and also ends up dead....) Brady's stepfather, Wallace, is flown in by Phil, only known previously as the council voice on the other end of the phone. It is soon discovered that Wallace is the serial killer. Lots of deaths, and a very dangerous 14-year-old first settler female come to light. Kenny, Casey's friend and the town carpenter, ends up with a bullet lodged beside his spine. So at the very end the stepfather, Wallace, and the teenage girl have flown away, Phil has been left as the person in charge of Rockton, Brady (who Casey discovers was not innocent, he was actually an accomplice to Wallace) has been killed by Petra, who has apparently been ordered by some unknown to do so, and Casey is going to see if she can find a way for her sister, April, who is a neurosurgeon, to be flown in to remove the bullet from Kenny, the only way he'll survive.
Goodreads synopsis: In This Fallen Prey, the next installment of New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrongs thriller series, Casey Duncan is about to face her toughest job as police detective in Rockton yet.When Casey first arrived at the off-the-grid town, an isolated community built as a haven for people running from their pasts, she had no idea what to expect, with no cell phones, no internet, no mail, and no way of getting in or out without the town councils approval. She certainly didnt expect to be the homicide detective on two separate cases or to begin a romantic relationship with her boss. But the very last thing she expected was for the council to drop a dangerous criminal into their midst without a plan to keep him imprisoned, and to keep others safe.Of course Oliver Brady claims he's being set up. But the longer Brady stays in town, the more things start to go wrong. When evidence comes to light that someone inside Rockton might be working as his accomplice, helping him to escape, Casey races to figure out who exactly Brady is and what crimes hes truly responsible for committing. In the next page-turning entry in Kelley Armstrongs gripping series, life in Rockton is about to get even more dangerous.
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