Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Publisher: HQN
Source: Library
Genre: Thrillers
I have three confessions to make:
1. I’ve got the scar of a gunshot on my forehead.
2. I don’t remember an entire year of my life.
3. My name is Kellen Adams…and that’s half a lie.
Girl running…from a year she can’t remember, from a husband she prays is dead, from homelessness and fear. Tough, capable Kellen Adams takes a job as assistant manager of a remote vacation resort on the North Pacific Coast. There, amid the towering storms and the lashing waves, she hopes to find sanctuary. But when she discovers a woman’s dead and mutilated body, she’s soon trying to keep her own secrets while investigating first one murder…then another.
Now every guest and employee is a suspect. Every friendly face a mask. Every kind word a lie. Kellen’s driven to defend her job, her friends and the place she’s come to call home. Yet she wonders—with the scar of a gunshot on her forehead and amnesia that leaves her unsure of her own past, could the killer be staring her in the face?
Dead Girl Running is the first installment in author Christina Dodd's Cape Charade series. Former Army Captain Kellen Adams has taken a job working as an assistant manager at a resort called Yearning Sands. Kellen is someone who is basically a computer on two legs. She can remember every thing about a person after meeting them. She can remember the location, schedule, and qualifications of every employee at the resort. What she can't remember is a year of her life, or why she has what appears to be a gunshot scar on her forehead.
With the arrival of a new group of vacationers, and the discovery of a woman's dead and mutilated body, comes more unwelcome scrutiny, more twists and shocking turns, and a rediscovery of who Kellen Adams really is, and why it appears she is running away from someone. Every guest and employee is a suspect. Even those who she once served with in the Army. Kellen is a woman with a past rife with secrets,
violence, and memory loss and a present filled with stolen artifacts,
ruthless smugglers, and dead bodies.
Like others, I picked this book up because I loved the the summary and
decided to request the book from my library. I am not disappointed. There's so much that happens in this book. But, to be honest, I was engrossed in finding out what the real truth about Kellen was and what really happened to her that ended up with Kellen being discharged from the service, and how she ended up with a very pronounced scar on her head. As you read this book, there are chapters
that explains her past and helps make sense as to why she is the way
she is now.
I think it really does flush out who Kellen really is as a main character and why understanding her past is so important. It is fair to say that Kellen could be considered to be an unreliable narrator. You get the sense that those around Kellen know more about what happened to her, and are trying to do the right thing by her. On a different
note, I was absolutely floored by the ending. What just freaking happened?!?!?! I am happy that I actually hold in my hands the next book in the series! I think I will recommend that readers start by reading the short (61 pages) novella that kicks off this series. I think it might answer some questions.
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