Wildwood

Deputy Sheriff Eli North, Marge (his sheriff mother), and FBI agent Alyssa Mason return in this gripping follow-up to Northwoods, set in rural northern Wisconsin. Eli is trying to enjoy a day off when he's called to the scene of a disappearance. Nothing much looks disturbed in Trinity Campanella's trailer until Eli gets to the bedroom, where he finds a bloodstain on the bed and blood spatters on the wall. Convinced they're now looking for a body, Eli and Marge begin their investigation. What starts as a straightforward case soon becomes something bigger when Alyssa turns up with a DEA agent in tow. Turns out, Trinity's disappearance is tied to a larger crime network involving the smuggling of massive amounts of illegal drugs and conspiracy to commit large-scale fraud. Eli, Marge, and Alyssa are in a race against time to find Trinity, if she's still alive, and to put the larger criminal organization out of business once and for all. VERDICT In this atmospheric, gritty novel, Pease explores a grimmer side of rural communities, which are not immune to larger societal ills. For fans of William Kent Krueger and Stacy Willingham.--Jane Jorgenson

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