Friday, September 30, 2011

The Other Side of Dark / Joan Lowry Nixon / 185 pages

Stacy wakes up in a hospital to discover that she has been in a coma for 4 years.  She has lost 4 years of her life and her mother.  She had been sunbathing when she was 13 and heard a noise from inside the house.  She looked up to see a man with a gun coming out of her house.  He shot her, and she finds out later, killed her Mom.  While trying to catch upon how much she and her world have changed, she recalls seeing the face of the man who shot her, and inadvertently tells this a reporter.  She knows the man was familiar to her and tries valiantly to remember who he was.  Working with detectives, she attempts to solve the mystery before the killer puts an end to her sleuthing.  Nonstop suspense and believable characters will thrill readers as tension builds to a fever pitch and Stacy races against time to stop the killer.

1 comment:

  1. This is a good book, but I remember reading it over a decade ago. How can this be up for the Mark Twain award?

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