On an expedition into Oregon’s Lava River Cave, outdoor journalist Meg Reed stumbles across a body buried way more than six feet under . . .
A debate is raging over the use of public lands, and to cover the story for Northwest Extreme magazine, Meg joins a congressman and several others on a subterranean adventure—despite her intense claustrophobia. The thoughts of cave-ins and cougars are unnerving, but at least it’s a distraction from her other anxieties, like her best friend’s departure for Italy, her boss’s plan to sell the company, and the ongoing questions about her father’s suspicious death. But in the chilly darkness of the volcanic rock, she discovers a Forest Service employee, stabbed with a trowel. Now Meg will need to do some in-depth investigating or the truth may never come to the surface . . .
Wow! A book that twists threats and trust together so that the protagonist has no idea who she can rely on! This is a humdinger of a book and well worth the wait and read.
With her friend Matt trying to decide where his work future lies he suggests that Meg might want to come visit Bend, at the same time she realises that she can do some work for the magazine she, currently, works for. Granted this will mean she has to face another of her fears but the chance of writing a hard hitting, possibly political, piece for Northwest Extreme means she is prepared to suck her claustrophobia up and go underground. The last thing she expects, however, is a dead body, and then having to decide if she can trust Matt, if she can trust her boss Greg, indeed can she even trust herself! 15 out of 10 and even if there are no more in this series I am glad to have read them!
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