Deadly Kin: A White Mountains Mystery

By Tom Eslick

Book Overview

Set in the beautiful White Mountains of New Hampshire and featuring smart, ruggedly handsome science-teacher-cum-sleuth Will Buchanan, this outdoor mystery series features nonstop action and more plot twists than a mountain trail. When Will?s former girlfriend, Laurie, asks him to chaperone her seventeen-year-old niece, Erin, on an overnight hike to Mount Washington?s Zealand Falls, he promptly agrees in order to get back in her good graces. Erin is to meet her brother, Josh, who has been hiking the Appalachian Trail. But when Josh is found dead at the bottom of a cliff the next morning and Erin disappears, Will must solve the mystery as well as prove his own innocence?and survive the relentless mayhem that makes them, in heart-stopping mountain chase scenes, the quarry of an unlikely yet familiar killer.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0142004790
• ISBN13: 9780142004791
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.5" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

New Hampshire Thriller

Just finished reading Deadly Kin. As I'm originally from NH, it's always fun to read about places I've been in real life. The author mixes fictional with true life towns in NH but you really get the feel for the lifestyle of small town New England. The writing is fast paced and keeps your interest until the very end of the book. Strongly suggest that you read Tom's first book so you know the history of the main characters and can delve right into this book.

fast-paced, action-packed thriller

He is suave, sexy and sweet but that doesn't stop his significant other from dumping him with no explanation after two years together. So when Laurie ask Will Buchanan to escort her niece to Zealand Falls in the New Hampshire White Mountains so she can meet her brother Josh who is hiking the Appalachian trail, he agrees to do it hoping this is the first stop towards a reconciliation.When the two siblings meet, Will is shocked to see them make love, but also hears another person close by. When Josh's body is found at the bottom of the Cliff, Will knows instantly that he was murdered and thinks of the stranger in the woods. Will becomes involved in Laurie's family troubles, which lands him in jail, accused of raping and beating Erin. When he makes bail, Erin disappears and Will tracks her down only to find himself the prisoner of Josh's killer. It will take some very clever planning and execution on Will's part if he wants to get himself, Erin and Laurie (who was also kidnapped) out of their predicament and in one piece.DEADLY KIN is a fast-paced, action-packed thriller that will have readers turning the pages to see what happens next. There are so many twists and turns and red herrings that readers will be hard pressed to figure out what is really happening to Erin. It is difficult to understand why Will wants Laurie back after the way she treated him and the trouble he gets into because of her. Inside all this action, Tom Eslick brings to life the beauty of the White Mountains to life.Harriet Klausner