In the Barren Ground by Loreth Anne White

He's an alcoholic and he lives by himself. She's a Royal Canadian Mounted Police detective who moved out of her rural hometown of Clinton, Canada as soon as she could after her boyfriend Ash Haugen broke her heart. Her characters are memorable and the suspense is always outstanding! The Dark Bones is the second book in the Dark Lure series (The Dark Lure was FANTASTIC). Loreth Anne White is one of my favorite authors.

Please do yourself a favor and pick a different book. You get to the end and the bad guy turns out to be absolutely no one worth caring about and you feel like you missed something really important in the middle but turns out it’s just a terrible story. When all was said and done, I felt like I just got done watching a cheesy, adult episode of scooby doo. This story is way too many hours of “regrets” and “longing” and “I hate you” turned into “I love you” two sentences later. What bothered me is that there was absolutely no point to add those details to the story.

I am not shocked easily so it wasn’t the subject matter or the words that bothered me. Also, it seems like the author threw in risqué language and subjects like rape and molestation, which were completely pointless to the story, in an effort to shock readers. There are so many unnecessary detail in this book. Seriously, did I listen to the same book as all the people who gave it great reviews? I hate to write such a bad review but I feel I owe it to the people contemplating buying this book.

In the Barren Ground by Loreth Anne White