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Mist and Malice

by Rachel Howzell Hall

A coastal town’s overlapping cases

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A coastal town’s overlapping cases

In Haven, California, private investigator Sonny Rush is still learning the dangers of her new home when teenager Honor Butler arrives seeking help. Honor’s account and the discovery of a missing day laborer’s remains draw Sonny into cases that converge on a network exploiting vulnerable people, with protection from figures meant to uphold the law. The investigation links small-town corruption to questions of loyalty and betrayal, while also bringing Sonny’s own past and the safety of those close to her into the stakes. The setup combines a missing-person case, a threatened teenager and a wider conspiracy in a fogbound coastal community.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy domestic thrillers centered on a private investigator and a new case.
  • Readers interested in stories about small-town corruption, missing people and conspiracies.
  • Readers seeking suspense involving vulnerable people, loyalty and personal risk.

Themes

Small-town corruptionExploitation of vulnerable peopleLoyalty and betrayalConspiracyThe past and personal risk

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Book overview

A small-town PI is drawn into a killer conspiracy in a breathtaking novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of the Anthony Award-nominated These Toxic Things.

Private investigator Sonny Rush, the newest resident of Haven, California, knows that this fogbound coastal hamlet is every bit as dangerous as her hometown of Los Angeles. And when teenager and repeat runaway Honor Butler shows up at Sonny's door with terror in her eyes, Sonny is immediately pulled into a new case that lands close to home.

Desperate, hungry, and in need of someone she can trust, Honor tells Sonny a horrifying story about where she's been--and what she's been forced to do. Then, hours later, the forest near Sonny's cottage yields the remains of a missing day laborer, a man whose wife has been searching for answers for months. Soon, coincidence sharpens into conspiracy.

As Sonny digs deeper, the threads of these cases twist together into something horrifying: a ruthless network preying on the vulnerable, protected by the very people meant to uphold the law. With every step closer to revealing Haven's corruption, Sonny risks pulling the lives of her loved ones into the cross fire--and exposing the shadows of her own past. Because in this town, loyalty can be fatal, and survival means deciding who you're willing to betray.

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