Deadfall (National Forest Mystery) [Paperback]

Lynda Douglas (Author)

Book Description

Series: National Forest Mystery | Publication Date: February 1, 2002

Claire Mitchell has a brilliant career, a handsome fiance and a cavernous gap in her memory. All she has from her childhood are haunting dreams and a heart-shaped antique locket. Claire manages to quell her curiosities until it's clear someone wants her dead. Armed with only her intuition that the attempts on her life are connected to her forgotten past, Claire heads north to the Siskiyou National Forest where she was found as a battered ten-year-old clinging to life...and her locket.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...breathtaking. I wanted to rush ahead to find out... find out... find out..." -- John Herrmann

"...stylish prose and a fresh new voice...A terrific read and an impressive debut novel." -- Kris Neri

“... absolutely terrific debut...page turning suspense and characters I loved..." -- Beverly Connor

About the Author

From the rolling hills of her Tennessee home to the Pacific Northwest, Lynda Douglas loves the outdoors. She enjoys hiking, camping, fishing and traveling the U.S.

Lynda's passion is writing. Her short stories have appeared in such magazines as MURDEROUS INTENT, FUTURES, NEFARIOUS and others. Her novella "Lilacs and Lace" received the 2001 Derringer Award for Best Mystery Novella published in 2000.

Lynda's first mystery novel grew from her experiences hiking in Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest. DEADFALL is the first of Lynda's Forest Service mysteries.

Product Details

• Paperback: 234 pages
• Publisher: Oak Tree Publishing (Claremont, CA); 1st edition (February 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1892343231
• ISBN-13: 978-1892343239
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,777,339 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Plenty of Twists & Turns & an Ending You'll Never Forget, May 18, 2010

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Tracy Oshima (Long Beach, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deadfall (National Forest Mystery) (Paperback)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deadfall Enhanced, July 16, 2005

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Jeannie Green "Jeannie" (Arizona) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deadfall (National Forest Mystery) (Paperback)

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.