Susan (the other Susan)'s Reviews > Dead Giveaway

It doesn't suck. FYI, this is the middle book in a 3-part series that really needs to be read in order to appreciate what's going on. It's about the step-children, now adults, of a beloved small-town preacher who happened to be a sadistic pedophile. The Rev went missing years ago, and suspicion fell on then teenaged stepson Clay, who is the hero of Book 2. Clay has spent his life guarding his family's secret, accepting the role of town pariah and developing a lot of bitterness in the process. His life looks to get a lot more complicated when Allie, a police officer, returns to her hometown and starts to dig into the cold case of the preacher's disappearance. Will she fall in love with the town bad boy, her chief suspect? Of course she will.