Those Who Came Before
by J.H. Moncrieff
Genre: Horror
My Review
A weekend camping trip goes horribly wrong for two young couples. Reese Wallace is the lone survivor of the massacre that befell them, which makes him the likely suspect.
Detective Maria Geyeyes is assigned the case and comes to realize she’ll have to set aside her belief in what is real and what is imagined and draw on her Native American heritage to solve it and stay alive.
The story started with the massacre and that quickly pulled me into the story. As the author wove past history with present day, she tightened the grip on my intrigue. And the more I learned about the characters, the more I was invested in their survival.
This is a mystery and a horror story, but also one of what goes around comes around. The past can come back to haunt you.
And the ending. Well, that gave me much to ponder.
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Synopsis
People are dying at Strong Lake, and the worst is yet to come.
An idyllic weekend camping trip is cut short when Reese Wallace’s friends are brutally murdered. As the group’s only survivor, Reese is the prime suspect, and his story doesn’t make much sense. A disembodied voice warning him to leave the campground the night before? A strange, blackened tree that gave him an electric shock when he cut it down for firewood?
Detective Greyeyes isn’t having any of it―until she hears the voice herself and finds an arrowhead at the crime scene―an arrowhead she can’t get rid of. Troubling visions of a doomed Native American tribe who once called the campground home, and rumors of cursed land and a mythical beast plague the strangest murder case she’s ever been a part of.
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About Author J.H. Moncrieff
J.H . Moncrieff’s City of Ghosts won the 2018 Kindle Book
Review Award for best Horror/Suspense. Reviewers have
described her work as early Gillian Flynn with a little Ray
Bradbury and Stephen King thrown in for good measure. She
won Harlequin’s search for “the next Gillian Flynn” in 2016.
Her first published novella, The Bear Who Wouldn’t Leave, was featured in
Samhain’s Childhood Fears collection and stayed on its horror bestsellers list
for over a year.
When not writing, she loves exploring the world’s most haunted places,
advocating for animal rights, and summoning her inner ninja in muay thai
class.
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