COLD COLD HEART (Tami Hoag) - December 12/15

Got this one from Lisa. I liked the premise of the book - woman returns home after surviving a brutal attack by a serial killer - but Hoag offers up a narrative that's two times longer than necessary and the book is subsequently suffused with long, long patches that simply aren't all that entertaining. There's a lot of stuff revolving around Dana's recovery and her eventual investigation into her best friend's disappearance seven years earlier, but it's all just so padded out. The final stretch was pretty exciting, admittedly. ** out of ****