What Lies Beneath: My Life as a Forensic Search and Rescue Expert

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In game theory, such punishment-and-cost situations demonstrate an idea known as “subgame perfection,” another version of the Nash equilibrium in which even wildly altered circumstances do not change the optimal decisions. Recovering bodies, finding discarded remains, identifying unmarked graves and saving people from locations and situations too dangerous for the normal emergency services - all in a day's work for Peter Faulding. J.G Hetherton deserves ALLLL the flowers for his beautiful writing. WOW. He is a true writer; an artist with words. He could take the mundane and describe it in ways I've never considered. I can't say enough good things about the writing quality of this novel. Hetherton is truly talented. What Lies Between Us is a dark and twisted tale of intense love and hatred. Nina and Maggie live in the same house. Every other night, Maggie and Nina have dinner together. Everything appears normal at the start but there are many secrets between Maggie and Nina, secrets which when revealed could kill. Because in this house, the truth is more dangerous than lies.

In this vein, consider the problem of enforcing norms in society by issuing punishments, as opposed to appeasing wrongdoers. I would like to thank @netgalley and Crooked Lane Books for sending me an advance copy of “What Lies Beneath” by J. G. Heatherton. This is the second in a series with the reporter Laura Chambers as protagonist. I have not read the first book in the series, but this book builds on the hostility Laura suffers from the sheriff’s office in the wake of her apparent responsibility for the death of a well-liked police officer. The book opens with the death of a fleeing girl who called Laura just minutes before the girl was killed. Laura failed to take the call—and she fails to recognize the girl, whose face is too mutilated for recognition. It is only when Laura finds a photograph of her father, herself, and a little girl that she had thought was a false memory that Laura begins to remember some of the shadows in her family’s past.

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The author, J.G. Hetherton, is new to me. I did not read Laura Chambers Mystery #1 ( Last Girl Gone) and I don't think you will have to either, although I am adding it to my list! I think I have found a new author to add to my favorites list! His writing is beautifully woven together with stunning imagery. A particular passage I liked, that is an excellent example of his imagery follows:

I will say that the ending was just WOW! Ok, I did not see that coming but it was definitely impactful. A chapter that takes her to the dark side before hitting her real goal in life might have added a bit more to this story. In other words, open with that horrific scene with the fire, then uncover the past while she learns to deal with the horror of her situation. This would have grabbed your readers by the throat and they’d have refused to put that book down until finished! A good content edit could have realigned the text into a killer thriller, but in the end, it did turn into an interesting read. Sixty-eight-year old, Maggie spends her days in the attic watching her neighbors going about their lives. To them, she doesn't exist. As Maggie watches, she notices things that no one else does. She’s the first to notice when Mr. Steadman’s curtains stop opening and his mail and newspapers start piling up. I have to deviate significantly from the blurb on Goodreads because that one almost seems like it’s for a different book.Fast forward twenty years and a girl's mangled corpse on the interstate after an accident leaves some strange clues behind. Her last call was to Laura but Laura cannot identify the corpse and detectives are skeptical that she has no idea why someone would be calling her just minutes before Michelle Pfeiffer received some positive notice for her performance. Roger Ebert called her "convincing and sympathetic." [15] When I first started reading, I was thinking; I found a new series to read, not a great series, but an okay series. Sadly, it didn't hold even okay to the end. We only have Maggie and Nina to suspect. So, it’s either one of them is the bad guy or both of them are. That took the fun away from me. Especially since with each neatly placed clue, (if you’re clever enough to notice them) you can guess the who. A Jane Doe is murdered during a Hit and Run.. Was it intentional or an accident? Does this have anything to do with the Shutgun Slayer?