Ransom River

A stunningly complex and atmospheric novel from Edgar Award-winning author Meg Gardiner, featuring a deeply flawed,
compelling heroine, a murder trial, and the long-unsolved mystery it exposes.

Rory Mackenzie is juror number seven on a high-profile murder case in her
hometown of Ransom River, California. It's a place she vowed never to visit
again, after leaving behind its surfeit of regret and misfortune and the specter
of a troubled past that threatened to disturb the town's peaceful façade.
Brilliant yet guarded, Rory has always felt like an outsider. She retreated
into herself when both her career aspirations and her love affair with a
childhood friend, undercover cop Seth Colder, were destroyed in a tragic
accident.

While most of the town is focused on the tense and shocking circumstances
of the trial, Rory's return to Ransom River dredges up troubling memories from
her childhood that she can no longer ignore. But in the wake of a desperate
attack on the courthouse, Rory realizes that exposing these dark skeletons has
connected her to an old case that was never solved, and bringing the truth to
light just might destroy her.

Departing from her popular series novels, Meg Gardiner has gone
deeper than ever into the utterly convincing lives and compelling pasts of her
characters. Ransom River is an intimate crime thriller with a dark mystery at
its heart-one that will keep readers breathless until the very last page.

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