But in the wake of a desperate attack on the courthouse, Rory realizes that exposing these dark skeletons has connected her to an old case that was never solved, and bringing the truth to light just might destroy her. While most of the town is focused on the tense and shocking circumstances of the trial, Rory’s return to Ransom River dredges up troubling memories from her childhood that she can no longer ignore. She retreated into herself when both her career aspirations and her love affair with a childhood friend, undercover cop Seth Colder, were destroyed in a tragic accident. It’s a place she vowed never to visit again, after leaving behind its surfeit of regret and misfortune and the specter of a troubled past that threatened to disturb the town’s peaceful façade.īrilliant yet guarded, Rory has always felt like an outsider.
Rory Mackenzie is juror number seven on a high-profile murder case in her hometown of Ransom River, California. “Ransom River ” is her latest book which is a standalone thriller. Gardiner’s first novel, China Lake, received the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original novel upon its publication in the United States in 2008.
The second Jo Beckett escapade, The Memory Collector, was published in June 2009, the third, The Liar’s Lullaby, in June 2010, and her latest Becket book, The Nightmare Thief, was published in June 2011.
In June 2008, she published the first novel in a new series, featuring forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett. Meg Gardiner, author of Ransom River, is the Edgar Award-winning American crime writer, who currently lives in the United Kingdom and has a number of best-selling series such as the Evan Delaney novels.
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