There are no perfect individuals here even though some may seem so on the surface. The characters (there are quite a few) are well developed and complicated people. To top it off, a Hollywood true crime writer has come to cover the story and he has designs on Ellen.
She’s pitted against a hot shot attorney from Minneapolis with whom she has personal history and a judge who has a super sized ego. What seems to be an open and shut case turns into anything but. She’s been handed the case involving Garrett Wright who Mitch Holt arrested for the assault of Megan O’Malley and the abduction of Josh Kirkwood. The story continues with the State’s Assistant City Attorney Ellen North at the forefront. However, I liked the book even though it had some issues. I’ll start off by saying I’m not a fan of having to read two books to figure out the resolution to a mystery. (Mar.) ~ FYI: A 16-page excerpt from Guilty as Sin appears in the paperback edition of Night Sins, published last month.This is the follow up to the first book in the Deer Lake series.
Hoag, who knows how to push the right buttons, is a suspense writer to watch. Readers new and old, however, will enjoy the political infighting, the legal jockeying and the several jolts of Grand Guignol violence. Those unfamiliar with Night Sins will need some time to sort out the characters' Peyton Place-like involvements. Complications arise quickly: the trial judge dies of a heart attack another boy vanishes Wright gains a new defense attorney who happens to be Ellen's ex-lover and Ellen gains a quasi-partner and potential flame, bestselling true-crime author Jay Brooks. When Josh reappears, unharmed physically but nearly autistic, Ellen is sure that Wright has an accomplice. Ellen fears the worst for the still-missing boy but thinks she can convict Garrett Wright, respected college professor, of his abduction. With Megan now in the hospital, the heroine's cap in this sequel sits on the head of new Deer Lake resident-and Assistant County Attorney-Ellen North. In Night Sins (1994), Hoag's first thriller after a successful run of paperback romances, Minnesota state cop Megan O'Malley tried to solve the kidnapping of eight-year-old Josh Kirkwood in the Minneapolis exurb of Deer Lake.
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