Dear Readers,
I am always looking for a good mystery. It is my favorite genre; in fact I probably lean a bit towards thriller more than straight mystery. I love the edge of the seat chill those books have. I want to not know who-dun-it until the author is ready to reveal it.
That is why Gone to Ground by Brandilyn Collins was so fun to read. I started reading Brandilyn years ago when she first started writing. She added a new dimension to Christian fiction that I had been looking for. She wrote mysteries that had that added element to them.
Gone to Ground is set in Amaryllis, Mississippi. It is a little back water town that has stood the test of time, even when other towns were not surviving various downturns in fortune. It has its own ghost; of course every town in the south worth its salt has a ghost, a wonderful Main street and families that have lived in town for years. It seems like the perfect town to live and bring up a family. That is until 5 women in 3 years have been killed. Suddenly no one trusts anyone, because the police can’t seem to figure out who it was. Was it somebody that everyone knew? Was it some stranger that snuck into town to commit the murders? Three women are sure they know who the killer is. All three women have hard evidence that their person of interest is who the police need to know about. All 3 are not sure if they can turn the person in. All three women believe it is someone different. Who is right? Are any of them right?
This is that type of mystery. Brandilyn is very good at laying down the clues and yet, not all of them will help you solve the mystery. She is very good at hiding them in plain sight also, the clues I mean. Which means of course it is more fun to try to solve the who-dun-it.
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