Faith of Dawn

Private Investigator Amanda Lane thought she'd gotten her life together after losing her leg in Afghanistan, but a crumbling marriage and PTSD showed her that couldn't be farther from the truth. Because of this, she decides to go back to the odd little Florida town where she lived as a girl-not to reconnect with family, but because the cold case of two missing college students seems to point there. If she can solve this case, she reasons, her estranged husband will see her as a hero, and will have to take her back. However, in the heart of the Ocala National Forest, almost 700 square miles of pine scrub and swamp, waits a horrifying truth about her childhood that will push her the edge of her sanity. She will confront both human and inhuman monstrosities, and endure earth-shattering revelations which she-and the world as we know it-may not survive.
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I have been a fan of Kristin Dearborn's work for her entire career, and I found so much to love about Faith of Dawn. I've always particularly admired Kristin's impeccable sense of place - her eye for the tiny details of a setting make all the difference when it comes to making you feel like you're there, where her books take place. Her trademark creatures and gore are also deployed here to great effect. Certainly Amanda Lane is her least sympathetic and among her most morally and emotionally complex protagonists, but that just makes the arc of the story hit that much harder. This book may not be for everybody, but it worked for me!
(Crosspost from my Storygraph review)
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