Elizabeth Goddard’s Shadows at Dusk is this week’s Reader Friday post. Here’s the first line: The old cargo plane vibrated as it descended into the airdrop zone, the turbulence shuddering through Carrie James. I loved this book!
But first the photo and verse. This was taken by Miller Jennings, the son of my friend Connie, while they were visiting California. He captured a beautiful sunset! When I saw it, the Scripture came to mind immediately.
Now for Elizabeth Goddard’s Shadows at Dusk. Here’s the cover and back copy:
Montana Detective Trevor West is desperate to learn what happened to his sister, who went missing in Alaska over a year ago, leaving nothing but a few photographs as clues to her whereabouts. At the advice of Police Chief Autumn Long, Trevor enlists the help of an experienced bush pilot. If Carrie James can’t help him find the places in the photographs, no one can.
But Carrie has her own agenda. Grieving the death of her closest friend and the only person she could trust, Carrie will help Trevor find his sister on one condition–that he help her track down her friend’s killer.
As the two close in on the answers they crave, they’ll face dangers and connections they could not have imagined. They’ll have to learn to trust one another–and face the dark secrets of the past–if they are ever to discover the truth and bring a killer to justice.
My take:
Oh, wow! My only suggestion is don’t start this at bedtime unless you’re willing to give up sleep! Shadows at Dusk will grab you on the first page of this riveting novel that has more twists and turns than a mountain road. I think this is my favorite Elizabeth Goddard book and I’ve loved them all!
Carrie James was betrayed in the worst way when her fiance threw her out of an airplane over East Africa. No thanks to him, she survives and is befriended by Issiac, who becomes a father figure to her. Ten years later, they are hiding out in Alaska where Carrie is a bush pilot.
Detective Trevor West’s sister had been missing a year when he received a lead from the sheriff in Shadow Gap and flew to the small Alaska town. Carrie agrees to help him look for his sister if he will help find who murdered Issiac. Goddard did a masterful job feeding clues and throwing up roadblocks to their investigation. Along the way, they learn to trust each other and fall in love.
This is a book romantic suspense readers do not want to miss!
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Beautiful photo. It sounds like a really interesting book. Thank you for sharing.
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Thank you, Diana! I think you’d enjoy Shadows of Dusk.
How do you survive being thrown out of an airplane over east Africa? Now I need to read that book as well. I’ll make sure I don’t start it at bedtime though 🙂
Author
You’ll have to read the book, Delores. 🙂
That’s a powerful photo, Pat. You picked a wonderful Scripture to match it.
I’ve read Elizabeth’s book, and it was exciting. I’ve enjoyed all her books, and I’m waiting for her next: “Hidden in the Night.”
I’m currently reading Lynette Eason’s “Double Take”. It’s as good as we’ve all come to expect from Lynette.
I just finished the last of Colleen Coble’s excellent Pelican Harbor series, “Three Missing Days”. It begins with, “’I know what you did.’ The muffled voice on her phone raised the hair on the back of Gail Briscoe’s head, and she swiped the perspiration from her forehead with the back of her hand.”
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Hi Tim. I just finished a Colleen Coble/Rick Acker that will release this spring, I think. You will really enjoy it! And now I have go back and read some of Colleen’s books!
Shadows at Dusk sounds terrific! Amazing photo and encouraging verse.
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Thanks, Priscilla! I love that verse and photo.
Oh my goodness! Are there even words to describe this photo? Wow seems so bland. The Scripture is absolutely perfect for it, Pat. And very encouraging as Priscilla mentioned.
I read Shadows at Dusk in October and it was a real nail biter.
I’m starting Lynette Eason’s Double Take later today. The first line of the prologue is, “The click next to her ear jerked her out of a deep sleep to roll into a sitting position, a scream on her lips, her eyes on the man with the gun standing next to her.”
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That line really grabbed me, Barbara! It was a great book. And I’m so glad you liked the photo and verse.
I also enjoyed Shadows at Dusk as well as the first in the series. The first line from This Side of Murder by Anna Lee Huber:
June 1919
England
They say when you believe you’re about to die your entire like passes before your eyes in a flurry of poignant images, but all I could think of, rather absurdly, was that I should have worn the blue hat.
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I love that first line, Gloria!
Beautiful photo!! I’m on the wait list at my library for Shadows at Dusk. I have read many of Elizabeth’s books and enjoyed them all. Just finished Fragile Designs by Colleen Coble – great read!
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Okay, Miss Mary, Fragile Designs is the book I’ll read next. 🙂
Love the photo and scripture. Elizabeth writes intriguing books. Blessings
Author
Thanks, Lucy, and yes, Elizabeth writes very intriguing books!
What a beautiful and interesting picture! Do you know if it was taken at the Santa Monica Pier? The verse really speaks to me?
I just checked Shadows at Dusk out at the library earlier this week. I’m looking forward to reading it. I had to finish reading your book first. Thoroughly enjoyed yours! I’m reading Dani Pettrey’s The Shifting Current right now. First paragraph:
Death. It permeated her hair, her skin. She wanted to crawl out of it, but there was nowhere to go.
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Thanks, Edward. I’m glad you enjoyed Fatal Witness! I’ll ask if the photo was taken at the Pier. Probably. My friend’s son lives in Santa Monica, I think. And that opening paragraph of of Dani Pettrey’s really pulls you in.
Beautiful picture and verse! This book sounds awesome, can’t wait to read it!
This book looks like an excellent read and love the sound of the book too
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It is great, Crystal.
Beautiful photo for the scripture.
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Thanks, Caryl!
Gorgeous picture and great verse!
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Also, “Shadow at Dusk” is very, very good!!
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Thanks, Kim. I love your first line!