VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
12/97 Avon
Hughes, the author of And After That, the Dark, delivers an entertaining and fast-paced murder mystery. Meg Gentry, former police reporter in Atlanta, is trying to turn her life around after a difficult divorce. Having traded her car for an old green camper, she heads home to small-town Tennessee. But things aren't any quieter in Appalachia: on her second day at the local newspaper, she's promoted after an editor dies -- either by suicide or murder. After being threatened by her brother-in-law, rescuing a young woman trying to escape her evangelical family and finding her camper burned to the ground, feisty Meg tries to find out what's happening. Hughes's snappy, dialogue and strong writing aptly describe the small Southern town and its attitudes towards a girl corrupted by the big city. She's one of the more interesting reporter-detectives to come around in a while. Here's hoping that Hughes has another Gentry caper out soon.
Review from Publisher's Weekly
AND AFTER THAT, THE DARK
2/97 Avon
As a teenager in a South Carolina backwater town -- on a night when the air was thick as amber -- Emily Wilkop watched as a man was brutally murdered.
For fifteen years she kept still...and paid a devastating price for her silence -- always terrified of the dark, and of the killer who might one day step out again from the shadows.
Now Emily is grown, trying to build a life for herself and her late sister's troubled daughter, and struggling with her feelings for an ex-big city cop.
But the secret she has so carefully guarded is coming back to haunt her -- in a small, Southern community where everyone keeps their dark secrets to themselves.
And now, someone wants to scare Emily ...
... TO DEATH!
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