I first encountered author
Kelley Armstrong as the writer of the Otherworld urban fantasy series, which I loved. I remember reading somewhere that Angelina Jolie had optioned
Bitten but I never saw any follow-up on that so I thought the project had died. And then it showed up on the Syfy network. Her first book was published in 1999 and since then she's been busy, some years publishing as many as eight books in one year, which would be a blistering pace for an indie author and is almost unheard-of for a traditionally published author (with the exception of Stephen King and James Patterson who basically create their own weather when it comes to publoishing).
I just found out she has embarked on a new series, this time of thrillers "starring" a female detective with a dark secret. When she was younger, she killed the son of a mob boss.
The series is already two books in, which means (yay) that I'll get to read two before I have to wait for the next one.
Here's the blurb for the first book in the series,
City of the Lost:
Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in
college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson
of a mobster and she knows that someday this crime will catch up to
her. Casey's best friend, Diana, is on the run from a violent, abusive
ex-husband. When Diana's husband finds her, and Casey herself is
attacked shortly after, Casey knows it's time for the two of them to
disappear again.
Diana has heard of a town made for people like
her, a town that takes in people on the run who want to shed their old
lives. You must apply to live in Rockton and if you're accepted, it
means walking away entirely from your old life, and living off the grid
in the wilds of Canada: no cell phones, no Internet, no mail, no
computers, very little electricity, and no way of getting in or out
without the town council's approval. As a murderer, Casey isn't a good
candidate, but she has something they want: She's a homicide detective,
and Rockton has just had its first real murder. She and Diana are in.
However, soon after arriving, Casey realizes that the identity of a
murderer isn't the only secret Rockton is hiding—in fact, she starts to
wonder if she and Diana might be in even more danger in Rockton than
they were in their old lives.
