Rachel's Wish - Softcover

Loyd, James E.; Matheson, David B.

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ISBN 10: 0990576310 ISBN 13: 9780990576310

Publisher: Dreadnought Press, 2018

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Rachel's Wish continues the story of revenge and mayhem begun, but not quite concluded, in Starter, the story of a father's obsessive quest to find those responsible for his son's drug-related murder. This new story very quickly turns on Rachel Jonas, the dead boy's mother, chronicling her personal voyage threading the shoals of grief and vengeance and disease.Diagnosed with cancer, she never once falters in her defense of her husband against an accusation of murder lodged by an erstwhile friend, police detective Sam Thompson, and Allison Walker, the publicity-seeking District Attorney embroiled in a heated re-election campaign. Through investigations and a riveting trial, she plots on several levels to save her husband and her family's good name in between bouts of surgery and chemotherapy.Rachel's Wish is most essentially a romance, a love story of a mother and afather for each other, their twin daughters and the memory of a son lost so tragically. All the same, it serves up its own good doses of murder and mayhem, of plot twists and unexpected revelations in the manner of its predecessor. The many loose ends somehow find themselves tied up at story's end, no matter how twisted their skeins might have been throughout the journey.

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In Rachel's Wish by James E. Loyd and David B. Matheson, grieving parents Rachel and Yonny Jonas are trying to deal with the facts of their son's death, first thought to be a drug overdose, but finally revealed to have been caused by something much more sinister. Such an unexpected and untimely death changes the community around the Jonas family, too, bringing old secrets to light and testing long-held ties like never before. While Yonny and Rachel seek justice for their son's death in different ways, Rachel in particular must contend with severe obstacles -- breast cancer being one of them. The family scrambles to protect themselves from outside threats, but ultimately, Rachel's Wish is a story about facing down the inescapable results of one's actions.Rachel's Wish maintains the tense atmosphere and nail-biting conflict that the authors established in Starter. The novel reads like a hard-boiled detective thriller that has somehow time-traveled to 1990's Texas, injected with a heaping helping of that old Southern justice. There are certainly many narrative threads going on here, but this book has the advantage of embellishing characters and conflict that have already been introduced to the reader in the preceding novel. To that end, readers will not have any trouble keeping pace with the quick changes of scenery and fast-talking dialogue, and will likely even enjoy the opportunity to get a deeper look at the psyches of these familiar characters. --- Red City Review

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