Every Trace - Softcover

Main, Gregg

3.61

51 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061097071 ISBN 13: 9780061097072

Publisher: HarperTorch, 2000

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P>Ellen has murder on her mind: an untraceable act of retribution for a horror that shattered her family and her childhood. After years of quietly searching, the time for action has arrived. Leaving her unwitting husband, Pete, she vanishes without a trace, taking to the road in pursuit of a man called Walker--a killer who can lead her to the evil prey she seeks.

With the slimmest of clues, a confused and desperate Pete begins to trace Ellen's path. As he pieces together the truth behind his wife's disappearance, he realizes that his ignorance of Ellen's secrets has not only jeopardized their marriage, but may also cost the woman he loves her life. Certain of nothing but the need to find her, Pete crisscrosses the country in a harrowing race against the clock that ends in a brutal, fiery confrontation on a desert mountain top--a stunnning shocker that will leave you guessing until the very end.

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About the Author:

Greg Main is a graduate of California State University and the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. He has worked as a teacher, a technical editor, a bookkeeper, and a screenwriter. His screenplays have been sold to Paramount, Disney, and Twentieth Century Fox. Every Trace is his first novel.

From Kirkus Reviews:

A debut novelist pushes most of the right buttons in this clever suspenser about revenge gone awry. At the age of four, Ellen Donelly sees her father murdered. Nightmares follow in a blighted childhood. When she's older, she begins to experience the steadily rising need for vengeance. In this she's joined by a powerful ally, her mother. Two killers, the police had said, but only Franklin Walker was ever arrested, tried, or convicted. Now, after 30 years, he's paroledand disappears almost at once from view. With him at large, the women rededicate themselves and vow to track him down. Their intentand they never shy from brutalityis to kill him, but not before they force him to reveal the identity of his accomplice. Unexpectedly, Ellen's mother dies. Ellen's resolve, however, remains intact. As unobtrusively as possible, she slips out of Dallas for L.A., where, according to the p.i. she's hired, Walker has gone to ground. All of this, incidentally (the years of inner turmoil, the renewed commitment), has been kept from her husband: at first, she simply wanted love and romance to be cocooned and thus protected; later, there were reasons not to trust him. So Pete knows only that she's vanished. Naturally, he tries to find her. And, of course, Ellen tries to find Walker (who turns out to be something other than the bloodthirsty beast of her terrible dreams). Soon enough, the missing murderer, understanding himself to be suddenly endangered, is thrust into pursuit of them all. The cast converges violently in a remote cabin near Santa Fe. Theres shooting, death, and in the smoke-clearing aftermath, a neat resolution. Formula stuff by and large, but with some nicely engineered surprises to tingle the spine. -- Copyright �1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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