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Deadfall: Murder in a National Forest (Terrible Heart Books)

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Claire Mitchell has a brilliant career, a handsome fiancé and she can't remember the first ten years of her life. She'd been found in 1979, a battered ten-year-old clinging to life with a gold locket around her neck in the Siskiyou National Forest.

Richard Westfall is everything Claire's ever wanted in a husband. When he takes her to meet his parents her apartment is vandalized and she is hit over the head as she interrupts the intruder. Claire can't imagine anything in her apartment worth taking. Then a friend borrows her car and winds up murdered and now Claire is convinced she was the intended victim, not her friend. Someone wants her dead and she is determined to find out why.

The book drips with suspense right from page one and it continues through a maze of twists and turns all the way into Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest and an ending you'll never forget.

It took a long time to get a copy of this book, since it went out of print with the original publisher. I did finally get a copy and was very pleased.

Claire Mitchell, the heroine in this story, has secrets locked in her head. Secrets that developed because of a severe head injury when she was ten years old. Time and medical help have not revealed what she cannot remember. Now that she's all grown up, someone wants her dead. Uncovering those childhood secrets is her only hope of staying alive.

The story mesmerized me. I couldn't put it down. Recently, in an Internet chat room, I heard that Lynda Douglas has released an enhanced version of Deadfall through a different publisher. You can bet I'll be looking for it. I don't know how she could have improved on the original, but I intend to find out.