The Darkness Gathers

Description

Following Miscione's gritty debut, Angel Fire, this second novel ratchets up the suspense and the stakes. In her fan mail, Lydia receives an anonymous cry for help-a tape of a miss-ing young girl's desperate message on an answering machine. The accompanying note begs Lydia to find and protect Tatiana Quinn, 'and all the other girls in need of rescue.' This simple case of a missing teenager soon becomes much more. Someone is anxious for Lydia to drop her investi-gation, someone powerful and nervous enough to engineer the early parole of Lydia's mother's killer. Now, in addition to tracing the roots of Tatiana's disappearance back to the girl's step-father's business dealings, Lydia must find the man who wants her dead, completing his unfinished business from years ago. Acknowledgments......Page 8 Part One......Page 12 One......Page 13 Two......Page 21 Three......Page 27 Four......Page 31 Five......Page 38 Six......Page 42 Seven......Page 51 Eight......Page 53 Nine......Page 58 Ten......Page 70 Eleven......Page 82 Twelve......Page 89 Thirteen......Page 95 Fourteen......Page 100 Fifteen......Page 112 Sixteen......Page 125 Seventeen......Page 129 Eighteen......Page 149 Nineteen......Page 155 Part Two......Page 164 Twenty......Page 165 Twenty-one......Page 169 Twenty-two......Page 182 Twenty-three......Page 187 Twenty-four......Page 189 Twenty-five......Page 207 Twenty-six......Page 211 Twenty-seven......Page 222 Twenty-eight......Page 229 Twenty-nine......Page 233 Thirty......Page 246 Thirty-one......Page 249 Thirty-two......Page 252 Thirty-three......Page 255 Thirty-four......Page 272 Thirty-five......Page 278 Thirty-six......Page 280 Thirty-seven......Page 283 Thirty-eight......Page 288 Thirty-nine......Page 301 Author’s Note......Page 308 Excerpt from Lisa Miscione's next mystery - 'Twice'......Page 310