Pitch Black by Susan Crandall
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(Mass Market Paperback)
- Pub. Date: June 2008
- 400pp
- Sales Rank: 38,549
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: June 2008
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
- Format: Mass Market Paperback, 400pp
- Sales Rank: 38,549
- ISBN-13: 9780446178563
- ISBN: 044617856X
Synopsis
Journalist Madison Wade decides to move to Philadelphia when one of her articles on violence in the city hits too close to home. Madison and her fourteen-year-old adopted son, Ethan, take refuge in Buckeye, a small town in eastern Tennessee where her father had grown up. Despite the tranquility, Madison and Ethan feel like outsiders. But Gabe Wyatt, the local sheriff, is determined to welcome them to the town. He immediately falls for this beautiful journalist from the city. Madison resists Gabe's advances, but he's persistent and unlike anyone she's ever met before. As a romance develops between them, Madison becomes comfortable in the rural setting, and when Ethan becomes friends with Jordan, a fellow outsider at school, Buckeye begins to feel like home. But a tragic death changes everything for them. When Jordan's father is murdered during a weekend camping trip, Ethan becomes the prime suspect. Gabe's investigation of the murder causes a rift in his relationship with Madison. As small town gossip builds a damaging case against Ethan, Madison races to discover the truth. Heartbroken and lost, she struggles to find anyone who will believe in her and Ethan, despite their past.
Publishers Weekly
In this taut potboiler from Crandall (Promises to Keep, etc.), Philadelphia reporter Madison Wade moves to a quiet Tennessee town with her adopted son, Ethan, a tough street kid just starting to get his bearings. Madison is beginning a fledgling romance with the local sheriff, Gabe Wyatt when Ethan goes on a camping trip with his new friend, Jordan, and with Jordan's stepfather and a couple of other boys. The trip ends in tragedy: Jordan's stepfather dies; the evidence points to murder; all suspicion turns toward new kid Ethan. That the reader gets to see things from Ethan's viewpoint drains some of the tension from the plot, but the real drama, nicely turned, is among the adults in their attempts to trust one another. (June)
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Susan Crandall makes her home in Noblesville, Indiana. This is her seventh novel.
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This is probably Susan Crandall's best bookby Anonymous
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May 26, 2009: The characters in Pitch Black are very believable. This book holds your interest right to the ending. It has much more mystery and suspense than her previous books, and she's done a great job incorporating this into her novel. I hope her next books will have more of the same. I enjoyed this book so much that I've boughten it for a gift for a friend.
Love this book although im only 11by Anonymous
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March 03, 2009: this is a GREAT book. im only 11 and i love this book. i luv how gabe and maddie need each other and how ethan is so brave and independeant. my mom read this book and she said it is 1 of the greatest books of all time. i also read some books my age which are also pretti good.
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