Review of Promise Not To Tell By Jayne Ann Krenz
This is the second book of what looks to be a fun trilogy. Unlike the first book, “When All The Girls Have Gone” which was clearly a stand alone, Krenz left enough dangling plot lines this time that hopefully the third book will solve the final fate of the cult leader. Like the first book this a tightly crafted mystery with interesting characters who are skillfully drawn. I look forward to book three.
From the Amazon description:
A painter of fiery, nightmarish visions throws herself into the sea—but she’ll leave some of her secrets behind…
Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy has spent years battling the demons that stem from her childhood time in a cult and the night a fire burned through the compound, killing her mother. And now one of her artists has taken her own life, but not before sending Virginia a last picture: a painting that makes Virginia doubt everything about the so-called suicide—and her own past.
Like Virginia, private investigator Cabot Sutter was one of the children in the cult who survived that fire…and only he can help her now. As they struggle to unravel the clues in the painting, it becomes clear that someone thinks Virginia knows more than she does and that she must be stopped. Thrown into an inferno of desire and deception, Virginia and Cabot draw ever closer to the mystery of their shared memories—and the shocking fate of the one man who still wields the power to destroy everything they hold dear.