Cold Black Earth
Written by Sam Reaves
Narrated by Alice St. Clair
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
When Rachel Lindstrom fled from her rural hometown in western Illinois to join the State Department and see the world, she never expected to return with her life in tatters. But after the horrors of war and a painful divorce, the only place where she can rebuild is the town she once escaped.
At home, however, there is little comfort. Her brother, still reeling from his wife’s suicide, struggles to run the family farm and handle a hell-raising son. Rachel’s arrival also draws a pair of rival suitors: her brother’s handsome friend and a rough-hewn sheriff’s deputy who pined for her in high school. Romance is the last thing on Rachel’s mind, but a little comfort would be nice—except for the complications.
When a deranged killer escapes from a local prison, the far-flung farmsteads go on high alert—especially when the bodies start turning up. And in a county where the miles outnumber the people, it soon becomes clear that the madman is close behind Rachel.
Sam Reaves
Sam Reaves was raised in small towns in Indiana and Illinois but gravitated to Chicago upon graduating from college and has been there ever since, when on US soil. He has lived and traveled widely in Europe and the Middle East and has worked as a teacher and a translator. He has published fiction and nonfiction as Sam Reaves; under the pen name Dominic Martell, he has written a European-based suspense trilogy. He is married and has two adult children.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cold Black Earth By Sam Reaves 2015 Amazon Prime Rachel Lindstrom left her hometown in rural Western Illinois 8 years ago to pursue her dreams. After 3 years in Iraq and a failed marriage, Rachel returns home in late November to consider her options moving forward. She needed a rest. Her timing for a homecoming could not have been worse. An oddball assortment of old High School friends and old suitors are fun....until Otis Ryle escapes from a psych unit at a nearby correctional center. Otis has a past in this rural town and is returning to heal, as well.....Suspenseful, sinister, with an ending you won't see coming.Recommended.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rachel Lindstrom has had a difficult year. She is newly divorced from her Lebanese husband and has resigned, in protest, from her embassy job overseas. Her life is a mess, and so she has come home to the family farm in central Illinois, to find peace and rest. But after the death of her parents and the fracturing of her brother's family in the old farmhouse, it no longer seems like home. Trying to mediate family problems and at the same time figure our her own future would be enough stress, but added to that is a recently escaped serial killer and a rash of murders in the area and the Lindstrom farm is in the center of it all - in more ways than one. The characters are complex and well developed and Reaves does a great job locating the story geographically and building empathy for the characters. It is a quick read with enough suspense to keep you turning pages. Perhaps the best compliment I can pay him is that I usually have these figured out before the end - but he threw me a curve and I missed it completely. A well developed plot that provides plenty of twists - a great story!