Mean Streak

Wow - great mystery with a lot of interesting twists! Emory Charbonneau is a pediatrician and marathon runner, who disappears while on a distance run in a national forest in North Carolina. When her husband Jeff finally figures out she is missing and reports it to the local authorities, she's been gone for 2 days and Jeff is, of course, the prime suspect.

Meanwhile, when Emory wakes up she's in a remote cabin with a mysterious man who won't tell her his name, but who appears to have no desire to harm her in any way - though he's certainly dangerous looking and obviously hiding from something. As he nurses her back to health she loses her mistrust of him, and when he gets her involved in helping a desperate neighbor, she begins to see his true character.

Jeff is playing the concerned husband, but HIS true character soon comes to light. When Emory's captor/rescuer returns her - alive - and the FBI gets involved, the story takes all sorts of interesting turns.

I have to say, I didn't see the end coming at all, and I pretty much couldn't put the book down, This was a great read.

Mean Streak