Crosscut

By Meg Gardiner

Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Crosscut (2006) is Meg Gardiner's fourth thriller featuring Santa Barbara lawyer and writer Evan Delaney. Back in China Lake for a high-school reunion, Evan finds that an unusual number of her classmates have died young. When a reunion guest is murdered, she and her family dig into a past tied to a military town and a shared field trip, while a killer who calls himself Coyote closes in.

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• Stephen King: “On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition (Scribner, 2010), per afterword list in On Writing (10th anniv. ed.)”