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Book Review of The River Sorrow

The River Sorrow
The River Sorrow
Author: Craig Holden
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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He was haunted by his past, plunged into a nightmare of murder, memory and desire...One powerful surprise after another. A highly original, haunting thriller. A drama, a thriller & a survival story all in one.

The doctor cannot forget the image earlier tonight of a burn victim in his emergency room, try as he might. No rest for him tonight, or tomorrow. The killings have begun and he's caught up in it all.

As a medical student, Lancaster shared a dusty college apartment with a woman who shared her desire with a white powder. As a result, he lost everything; then slowly won it back again. Now his past floods back before his eyes--in a man's seared flesh, in the arms of a mysterious young woman, in the probing questions of a good cop who caught a bad break and suspects Lancaster is not who he seems.

Suddenly Lancaster has no choice but to run--into the arms of his weakness and disgrace, into the past that almost destroyed him, into a corrupt and deadly plot that flows like a river of tears.

It keeps you reading, keeps you wondering and keeps you wanting to learn the rest of the story contained in this well-written, good book.