A Minute to Midnight: 2 (Atlee Pine Thriller)

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Coming back home brings all kinds of feeling for Atlee and when she starts asking questions to the people who used to know her parents, she realizes more than one is hiding things from her making it harder for her to follow a trail. I remember enjoying the debut novel in the Atlee Pine series and found this one to be just as enjoyable, as the tensions mount surrounding Mercy Pine’s disappearance in 1989. Atlee is asked to help, and as she delves into learning who her parents were and why they left town in a hurry, a man is found dead, shot to death in a tux. She is a trained investigator now and she intends to learn what happened that night and what happened to Mercy.

Atlee and her assistant Carol Blum head back to Atlee’s rural hometown in Georgia to see what they can uncover about the traumatic night Mercy was taken and Pine was almost killed. She and her assistant head back to her hometown to investigate the disappearance of her twin sister (Mercy) when they were six years old. and Atlee has gone back to her home town to seek the truth and also gets roped in to help with another string of murders.In the night back then, someone came into their bedroom, snatched Mercy and gave Atlee a whack on the head that nearly killed her. Read on to know more about how and why this was so much better than its prequel, and where its shortcomings were. In total, David has published 48 novels for adults; all have been national and international bestsellers and several have been adapted for film and television. It is one of those books that you race through eager to find out what will happen and reading it in anything but a single nail-biting sitting is nigh on impossible. He saves the biggest surprise for last in a moment that will provide an unexpected cliffhanger, which will have his audience eagerly awaiting the next entry.

His books are published in over 45 languages and in more than 80 countries, with 150 million copies sold worldwide. by a yet-to-be-determined person/serial killer; an experience that has impacted on most of her life; after a troublesome adolescence, confirmed loner Atlee, went on to be a hard-working super focused weightlifting champion and MMA black-belt holder; and today she's a highly efficient FBI agent whose patch includes the Grand Canyon. A Minute to Midnight is the second book in the FBI Agent Atlee Pine series, and this time the crime she's investigating hits a little too close to home. In this second story Atlee is still hung up over her sister’s disappearance almost thirty years ago.After a little reflection, I have decided that this book deserves 5-Stars and I have amended my rating accordingly. The second plot line is the investigation of a string of bizarre murders that start not long after Atlee arrives in town. Both investigations run concurrently and where a lesser author could make this rather befuddling there is no confusion of any kind and it is so easy to follow. A super-smooth read, A Minute to Midnight has everything you’d want in a page-turner – mystery, action, and well fleshed out characterization.

He and Atlee have some history but they will put their feelings aside to help with the task at hand. Indeed the book ends up telling a different story to the one expected (cue book 3 in the series) which I found amusing, but also frustrating as I now feel I'm half-way through and won't know until at least next year what happens next! The plot has parallels to Harry Bosch, in the way the there are multiple threads/investigations happening at the same time.In total, David has published 49 novels for adults; all have been national and international bestsellers, and several have been adapted for film and television. I loved the previous book in this series as well as characters etc, also due to the location of the Grand Canyon. Atlee believes a convicted serial killer, Daniel Thor, may be responsible and this story opens with her visiting him in prison. The characterization of Atlee Pine was the best part of the book, which made me want to read more about her. Interviews with local folks who knew the family back then unearth new leads as well as the surprising awareness that not everything Atlee has been told was the absolute truth - some of it not even close.

Then we are thrown all the time some 1960s shockers like "girls can do everything" , not making coffee for your boss, wounded male pride over tall woman in heels, which would be quite an OhMyGod moment if we were, well, in the 1960s.Atlee and her assistant Carol Blum head back to Atlee's rural hometown in Georgia to see what they can uncover about the traumatic night Mercy was taken and Pine was almost killed. And, as always with Baldacci’s work, there are numerous story arcs unfolding at the same time and they do come together well. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Atlee begins working the case, though must follow the lead of an investigator with whom she has a poor history, as she is visiting in an unofficial capacity. However, after an incident that could have Atlee kicked out of the FBI she is told to take a holiday.