I was disappointed with the second "Riverdale" book. The first one was fairly decent, but this one was just boring. She has the characters voices down pat, but there was no story. Taking place after Archie goes on trial for murder, the gang (Jughead, Betty, Veronica, and Archie) head back to Lodge Lodge to see if they can find any evidence Hiram might have left behind to exonerate Archie. The power goes out, someone leaves a basket of dead birds on the porch, it was all very silly.
I really like Michael Koryta's books, they're always well written and suspenseful, and this one was no exception. Tara is given the task of picking up a well known scientist and bringing him back to her college for a dinner where he's the featured guest speaker. He acts very oddly on the ride over, wanting her to take a different route, show him a bridge, take selfies with him. Then he asks her to lock his phone in her car, which she does, moments before a van plows into them, killing the scientist and knocking Tara into the river. She's in a coma and the driver of the van is murdered a few days later. Three different people are after the phone, but once they find it, they need Tara to unlock it. I enjoyed it, and best of all it featured a Dodge Hellcat :)
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