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Valley of the Shadow follows Meg Gentry’s return to her hometown for a little healing in the peace and quite. The problem is that the people she meets keep turning up dead. Are the deaths connected?
Meg Gentry has been working the crime beat for the Atlanta newspaper too long. After an ugly divorce from a closet transvestite policeman, she goes back home to the mountains of Tennessee to rebuild her life.
After 10 years, Clay Skinner is amazed to see the one love of his life walk back into his hometown. A failed marriage behind him, he wants to recapture the one that got away, but the changes in Meg after her experiences in the big city make her less approachable than when they were in high school.
There are no bit players in this novel; each character has his own idiosyncrasies that propel the story forward. Charlotte Hughes takes us into life in a small town, sharing each person’s contribution to the community along with the skeletons (sometimes literally!) in their closets. While you wonder how Meg will put the past behind her, the quiet small town world around her explodes with suspense that keeps you on the edge of your seat trying to figure out who done it. A mixture of romance, suspense, and mystery, Valley of the Shadow is a page-turner that holds you to the very end. This is one you won’t want to miss.
Reviewed by Karla Brandenburg
for The Road to Romance
October 8, 2004
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