Forsaken Country
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Three fathers collide far beyond the reach or safety of the law in this breathtaking thriller from the beloved author of The Stolen Hours and The Life We Bury: "one of our best crime writers at the top of his game" (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author).
Max Rupert has left his position as a Minneapolis homicide detective to live in solitude. Mourning the tragic death of his wife, he's also racked by guilt—he alone knows what happened to her killer. But then the former local sheriff, Lyle Voight, arrives with a desperate plea: Lyle’s daughter Sandy and his six-year-old grandson Pip have disappeared. Lyle’s certain Sandy's ex-husband Reed is behind it, but the new sheriff is refusing to investigate.When Max reluctantly looks into their disappearance, he too becomes convinced something has gone very wrong. But the closer Max and Lyle get to finding proof, the more slippery Reed becomes, until he makes a break for the beautiful but formidable Boundary Waters wilderness with vulnerable Pip in tow.
Racing after the most dangerous kind of criminal—a desperate father—and with the ghosts of their own pasts never far behind, Max and Lyle go on the hunt within a treacherous landscape, determined to bring an evil man to justice, and to bring a terrified child home alive.
“Allen Eskens . . . produces some of the best cat-and-mouse games I have read. This is a novel that you will not easily forget.” —BookReporter
“The search for mother and child fuels the brisk plot, but Forsaken Country spins on Eskens’ in-depth character studies. . . . Eskens is at the top of his skills.” —Oline H. Cogdill, The South Florida Sun Sentinel
“The suspense never flags . . . heart-pounding and heartfelt, Forsaken Country should be at the top of your to-be-read list.”— Heather Gudenkauf
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Allen Eskens. (2022). Forsaken Country. Little, Brown and Company.
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Max Rupert has left his position as a Minneapolis homicide detective to live in solitude. Mourning the tragic death of his wife, he's also racked by guilt—he alone knows what happened to her killer. But then the former local sheriff, Lyle Voight, arrives with a desperate plea: Lyle’s daughter Sandy and his six-year-old grandson Pip have disappeared. Lyle’s certain Sandy's ex-husband Reed is behind it, but the new sheriff is refusing to investigate.
When Max reluctantly looks into their disappearance, he too becomes convinced something has gone very wrong. But the closer Max and Lyle get to finding proof, the more slippery Reed becomes, until he makes a break for the beautiful but formidable Boundary Waters wilderness with vulnerable Pip in tow.
Racing after the most dangerous kind of criminal—a desperate father—and with the ghosts of their own pasts never far behind, Max and Lyle go on the hunt within a treacherous landscape, determined to bring an evil man to justice, and to bring a terrified child home alive.
“Allen Eskens . . . produces some of the best cat-and-mouse games I have read. This is a novel that you will not easily forget.” —BookReporter
“The search for mother and child fuels the brisk plot, but Forsaken Country spins on Eskens’ in-depth character studies. . . . Eskens is at the top of his skills.” —Oline H. Cogdill, The South Florida Sun Sentinel
“The suspense never flags . . . heart-pounding and heartfelt, Forsaken Country should be at the top of your to-be-read list.”— Heather Gudenkauf
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July 15, 2022
A case the cops in charge have already declared closed drags former Minneapolis Homicide detective Max Rupert out of his self-imposed exile and into a series of ever more dangerous adventures. The way Itasca County Sheriff Tate Bolger tells it, there is no case. Sandy Voight withdrew most of her savings from her bank account, packed up her 6-year-old son, Pip, and all their belongings, and took off for parts unknown, leaving David Haas, her live-in lover, to come home from work to find her gone. She might have been afraid of Reed Harris, her violently abusive ex-husband, but Reed clearly didn't have anything to do with her disappearance because he has a perfect alibi. Sandy's father, Lyle Voight, doesn't believe a word of this. He's convinced that Sandy never would have vanished without a word to him, and he doesn't think much of Bolger, who may have defeated him in the last election for sheriff but has no clue how to work the job. So Lyle looks up Max, who's been living in an isolated cabin trying to come to terms with his complicated feelings about killing the man who murdered his wife in The Deep Dark Descending (2017). Max isn't eager to rejoin the human race, let alone get involved in another case, but he can't resist the pleas of Lyle and his wife, Meredith, and soon enough he and Lyle are on the trail of two men who've taken custody of Pip. Eskens provides an irresistible hook, a clever spin on a classic suspense plot, and a series of expertly escalating confrontations between enemies and ultimately between allies forced to acknowledge that their goals aren't quite as consensual as they thought. Guaranteed to keep your heart pounding till the end.COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Max Rupert has left his position as a Minneapolis homicide detective to live in solitude. Mourning the tragic death of his wife, he's also racked by guilt—he alone knows what happened to her killer. But then the former local sheriff, Lyle Voight, arrives with a desperate plea: Lyle’s daughter Sandy and his six-year-old grandson Pip have disappeared. Lyle’s certain Sandy's ex-husband Reed is behind it, but the new sheriff is refusing to investigate.
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