This thriller exemplifies the notion that no good deed goes unpunished.
Cal Weaver's troubled teenaged son commits suicide, and this private investigator makes it his mission in life to find the dealer who sold his son drugs. One "dark and stormy night" Cal is sitting at the stop light, waiting for it to change, when a young girl taps on his car window and asks for a ride.
Cal is torn between allowing this girl shelter from the rain and appearing like a creepy old guy, picking up a young girl, until she asks, "Shit, aren't you Scott Weaver's dad?" Seeing an opportunity to question this girl, Cal allows her to get in the car. Oh, my! What a mistake! This is a decision that leads him down a dark path of pain and suspicion. Something is not right in the small town of Griffon, NY and by the time Cal unweaves all the lies and deceptions, it will never be the same, for the town or for Cal.
This was a good thriller that held my interest throughout. I had never read Linwood Barclay before and if this book is any indication of his work, he now has a new fan!
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