Friday, April 27, 2012

The Ridge / Michael Koryta / 357 pages / ALA Rusa RL - Best Adult Genre Fiction

"A person was twice as likely to kill himself as to be killed by another, and yet people feared murderers far more than what lurked within themselves." 
Deputy Sheriff Kevin Kimble is on his way to visit a murderer in prison.  Jacqueline had murdered her abusive husband and then shot Kimble when he responded to the call. On the drive, he receives a phone call from the town eccentric & drunk, Wyatt French.  French has built a lighthouse in the mountains of Kentucky on Blade Ridge.  Why?  He has angered the townsfolk and the residents of the new Big Cat Preserve.  He asks Kimble to investigate until he finds the truth.  He has made a similar request of Roy Darmous, a newspaper reporter.  The investigation and story are worthy of Dean Koontz, who highly recommends, as do I, this author.
"Part of aging was adapting, was acceptance that all the planning in the world didn't stand  a change against the fickle winds of fate."

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