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This is a thriller about predators, those who stalk, those who plunder innocence with impunity, those who kill to conceal their crimes. And while there are attractive male teachers who retain rigorous boundaries with their young female charges, there are also those who seek opportunity. Fro Mark Bradley, the recipe is disastrous, a talented student's diary taken as trough by a suspicious mother. No matter Tresa Fischer's protestations of fantasy, principal and parents alike judge Mark guilty, branding him as predator, with or without official charges. Wife Hilary believes in her husband's innocence, but on a trip to Florida during Spring Break, when Tresa's younger sister, Glory, is murdered, Mark is the obvious suspect. It is Freeman's task to make sense of the murder and the intentions of the suspect in a world that is quick to judge and quick to label, an isolated rural community fiercely protective of their youngsters-and their secrets.
The mystery begins with a shocking crime witnessed by a terrified girl, setting the stage for the later murder at the beach, the unsuspecting Mark and Hilary Bradley caught in an ongoing nightmare as Cab Bolton of the Criminal Investigative Division of the Naples Police Bureau tackles a complicated web of innuendoes, suspicions and the annihilation of a couple's reputation in the community. Freeman gives us plenty of wild geese to chase on this frantic, if erratic ride, a tight-knit town demanding justice one way or another. While all eyes are on Bradley, the sophisticated Cab arrives on remote Washington Island determined to make his own judgments, the place seething with secrets, a long-buried crime and the usual victims of time and place. Freeman pulls a complicated plot together and delivers an unpredictable ending. The questionable actions of Tresa and an impulsive Amy, Hilary's former student, are a bit wobbly, but Freeman pulls it out in the end, bad guys relegated to their just rewards and the Bradley marriage put to rights... almost. Luan Gaines/2011.
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Hilary and Mark Bradley are trapped in a web of suspicion. Last year, accusations of a torrid affair with a student cost Mark his teaching job and made the young couple into outcasts in their remote island town off the Lake Michigan coast. Now another teenage girl is found dead on a deserted beach. . . and once again, Mark faces a hostile town convinced of his guilt. Hilary Bradley is determined to prove that Mark is innocent, but she's on a lonely, dangerous quest. Even when she discovers that the murdered girl was witness to a horrific crime years earlier, the police are certain she's throwing up a smoke screen to protect her husband. Only a quirky detective named Cab Bolton seems willing to believe Hilary's story. Hilary and Cab soon find that people in this community are willing to kill to keep their secrets hidden—and to make sure Mark doesn't get away with murder. And with each shocking revelation, even Hilary begins to wonder whether her husband is truly innocent. Freeman's first stand-alone thriller since his Stride novels is a knockout.
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