Little Comfort
By

  Edwin Hill

"Sam will look right through you. He'll look right into your soul. He'll uncover your dreams, your demons, and your very core.  And he'll use all of it to get whatever he wants."

Crossing paths with Sam Blaine can be the worst thing to happen to a person...unless it's Gabe DiPursio.   It's probably worse than worse.  Then your whole life is linked to Sam.   The two of them have been through  horrific events that bind  them together no matter what.  This book takes the reader on a thrilling investigation of a psychological killer on the run along with his faithful and devoted friend. 

Hester Thursby is a Harvard librarian who also is very good at tracking down missing persons.  She is hired by Lila, Sam's sister, to track him down after he's been missing for years.  Hester has no clue what she's getting herself into.  This is a page turning story that doesn't slow down as the reader is taken along with Hester to locate Sam and Gabe.  There are clues that are sent to Lila by Sam through out the years and Hester starts to piece the puzzle together.  In the meantime, she has a "family" she's trying to hold together and that adds to the depth of the book.

The author has written a deeply suspenseful and page turning book with descriptions that put me in the story.  I wanted to turn and run away from what was happening but I couldn't help but turn the pages to find out what was going to happen next!  The POVs throughout the book switches between the main characters.  There are passages that link the past to the present story and bring it full circle as to why they are at this place in their lives.   The last part of the book is non stop thrilling with hardly any time to breathe.  

This is the first book I've read by this author.  This is out of my usual genre but I found it well written and entices me to see what Hester Thursby's next investigation will be in book two of this series, The Missing Ones.  I want to thank Mr. Hill for the copy of this book and the opportunity to read and review it.