Book Review: A Minute to Midnight by David Baldacci

Published in 2019. Atlee Pine is an FBI agent stationed at a one-person office near the Grand Canyon. However, on this day, she’s returning from the supermax federal prison at ADX Florence, Colorado, when she learns of an amber alert between Colorado and Utah. She passes the vehicle and follows it, trapping it in a dead end dirt road. The suspect resists arrests and Atlee takes him down, but loses control and almost kills him. After the incident, her boss gives her time off to calm down and resolve her issues, in particular, the death of her twin sister at age 6. She'd just visited her alleged killer at the supermax prison in Colorado.

Her administrative assistant, Carol Blum, accompanies her to Georgia where Atlee finds her old home. She hopes to revive her memories of her sister's abduction but finds her memories are sparse and the clues remote. Still, she finds people who not only remember what happened but remember her as well. As the investigation proceeds, she finds a dead body and she becomes involved in another investigation. She assists because she’s a law enforcement officer and because she was on scene. Eventually, the two investigations intertwine but one is solved and the other remains a mystery.

Interesting story and it didn’t turn out quite the way I thought it would, which was good. Otherwise, it would have been too predictable. By the way, the title has nothing to do with the story. This is the second Atlee Pine novel and I like her. Hopefully, there is another one in the pipeline.