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Dead Girl Running by Christina Dodd
Cape Charade series Book #1
4★
I have three confessions to make:
1. I've got the scar of a gunshot on my forehead.
2. I don't remember an entire year of my life.
3. My name is Kellen Adams...and that's half a lie.
Girl running...from a year she can't remember, from a husband she prays is dead, from homelessness and fear. Tough, capable Kellen Adams takes a job as assistant manager of a remote vacation resort on the North Pacific Coast. There amid the towering storms and the lashing waves, she hopes to find sanctuary. But when she discovers a woman's dead and mutilated body, she's soon trying to keep her own secrets while investigating first one murder...then another. Now every guest and employee is a suspect. Every friendly face a mask. Every kind word a lie. Kellen's driven to defend her job, her friends and the place she's come to call home. Yet she wonders--with the scar of a gunshot on her forehead and amnesia that leaves her unsure of her own past--could the killer be staring her in the face?There are several subplots within the story and some flashback moments that are necessary to fill in the blanks in the story. In some ways the setting...a storm brewing...characters trapped in a deserted hotel... all remind me of an old fashion "Who-Done It" complete with multiple suspects and possibilities. Cape Charade may not be a town that you want to put on your vacation places to visit. Nothing is exactly as it appears and the people are full of surprises and not all necessarily good ones. Excellent read.
