Book Review: Reese’s Leap, by Darcy Scott

Darcy Scott’s mystery REESE’S LEAP is a pressure cooker of a novel, starting out slow with rich, evocative imagery, a cast of intriguing—and occasionally maddening—characters, and a one-line treatment that can’t begin to convey the twists, turns, and back-stories Scott has deftly woven together. That treatment? Two men are stranded during a Women Only retreat weekend on Mistake Island, Maine, and get more than they bargained for when an unwelcome outsider insinuates himself into the fold.

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