Reviewed by Dan

TITLE: Closer

AUTHOR: F. E. Feeley, Jr.

PUBLISHER: Beaten Track Publishing

LENGTH: 380 Pages

RELEASE DATE:  March 1, 2018

BLURB:

Maplewood, Vermont is a picturesque town filled with unique shops, unique homes, and a quaint familiarity all centered around a lake with an unusual history.

Legends, old as well as Urban, float around like the mist that hovers above the lake at break of dawn.

But they’re just stories, right?

Hayden Moore’s life was destroyed when his husband, Malcolm, was murdered. Giving up his job as an assistant district attorney in Boston, Hayden moved to the little burg of Maplewood to recover.

A new life.

A fresh start.

However, something underneath the water is stirring. Something rotten. A deadly secret wakes underneath the black waters of Lake Veronica so disturbing it haunts the nightmares of the local residents.

It’s coming closer…

REVIEW:

I’m a fan of this author and have been since I read his book The Haunting of Timber Manor. I enjoyed the story in this current book, but I’ve got to keep it honest and note that there were a few things that threw me out of the story. They probably wouldn’t stand out to the average reader, but if you grew up in Northern Vermont, there were some issues. Some of them, like a date discrepancy might have been caught in the final copy. But either way…did they ruin the story for me? By no means. I loved the story. I can’t wait for whatever comes after the ‘to be continued’ at the end of this one.

Hayden Moore moves to Vermont after his husband is killed in a mafia family payback for a case that Hayden tried in Boston.  He buys an old house that perches above a deep dark lake named for a woman who died there over 150 years previously. The woman’s death was traumatic, there was drama and murder, and an evil curse.

Now Hayden and the residents of the small town of Maplewood, Vermont are dealing with a malevolent force. Something is killing people. No one knows why or who. No one remembers the old town legends. Hayden, and a small group of others, start to suspect the truth. But by the time they finally figure it out, will it be in time to save the town? I liked the building drama, and the building story.

I highly recommend this one.

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