How easy is it to get lost when you wander off the Appalachian Trail? Very. This extremely page-turning novel by Amity Gaige veers between the disappearance in Maine’s North Woods of thru-hiker Valerie Gillis, who is just two hundred miles from the AT’s terminus when she fails to show up for her trail support, and the people anxiously searching for her, including a determined female game warden and a cranky resident of an assisted living facility sleuthing online. Is this a simple case of taking a wrong turn in a dense forest or a criminal whodunit? Suspicion falls first on the husband (of course) and then on a secret government training base. Meanwhile, the clock is tick-tick-ticking.
Heartwood