Readers who like crime thrillers Christian Impact A terrific crime thriller and hopefully the start of a great new thriller series. When she gets there, he grounds the big reveal in enough facts that it feels creepily plausible. He makes Alvarez skeptical but curious enough to keep following rabbit trails that eventually lead to the truth. Threadgill manages to overcome both problems.

Too often the steps villains apparently took to hide the terrible truth seem improbable (“could anyone really have enough money to bribe or kill that many people?”) In other cases, it’s just hard to believe that a tiny clue could really start an investigation big enough to blow a case wide open (“they got here all because of a broken pencil?”).

Finding out the truth – and convincing anyone else to reopen the case – will take more than she’s ever given before.Ĭold cases and scant clues leading to big conspiracies are frequent territory for thriller novels, but they’re difficult to pull off. But when Benjamin’s mother shows a text message she believes Benjamin recently sent to her, and a similar message gets sent to another person connected to the case, Amara’s not so sure. Every authority involved agreed that Benjamin Reyes died, along with a school bus full of other children, in a terrible train collision three years ago. The last thing Amara Alvarez wants to believe is that a child declared dead three years ago is still alive. Revell (an imprint of Baker Publishing Group) Publication Date:

Collision of lies by tom threadgill