Aaron Falk was the character that started the book in what appear to be driving to a church. There was a line that stated "he dragged his heel the whole way to Melbourne" and made a 5 hr drive go way pass that timing.
But what I wanted to say, was that the writer should use
…more phrases that match the outcome. As "dragging one's heel" means to walk at a very slow pace and that was not what Falk was doing, In fact he was driving. So what should have been said is "he drove at a very slow pace".
As I glanced to the end of the first chapter. I must say the writer took keen knowledge at every step and movement of all the characters that played on in a church funeral settings and I was pleased with the details of their movement and body language.
I congratulate the writer on her carefully brave and written strategy. She wrote without flaws in grammar describing the characters body language excellently . And that makes my rating for this book above the norm.
I could tell that Falk as a federal police that wasn't one that was good at funerals. Especially with former faces that he knew back then. He was really not that socially in conversations in these setting as he was dying to leave. The three last lines of the first chapter says it all.
However it goes without saying that every book is not without its flaws. I saw when the writer wrote in the second chapter: "Falk rest his chin on her blonde head" it should be blonde hair. So I was a little turned off with this line. But it never had much effect on my ratings.
The writer also wrote: Gretchen Schooner slipped off a pair of cheap sun glasses. I am not sure but I don't see the need to state how cheap a sun glasses is only if the writer was giving an impression on her economic status. But apart from such it was pointless to me.
Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder, Luke was his alibi. Falk and his father fled under a cloud of suspicion, saved from prosecution only because of Luke's steadfast claim that the boys had been together at the time of the crime. But now more than one person knows they didn't tell the truth back then, and Luke is dead.
Amid the worst drought in a century, Falk and the local detective question what really happened to Luke. As Falk reluctantly investigates to see if there's more to Luke's death than there seems to be, long-buried mysteries resurface, as do the lies that have haunted them. And Falk will find that small towns always hide a big secret. Rated 4 out of 5 (less)
