A Minute to Midnight: 2 (Atlee Pine Thriller)

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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.

I would like to thank NetGalley, Pan Macmillan and the author David Baldacci for my ARC in exchange for an honest review. The ending holds a major surprise for Atlee and inspires a need for the next book to be written sooner rather than later. After rescuing a kidnapped girl on an Amber Alert, FBI agent Atlee Pine nearly beats the perp to death, and is encouraged by her boss to take a vacation. I equally enjoyed the developments of the main character, Atlee Pine, who, thirty years ago was brutally assaulted and left for dead and her twin sister Mercy was abducted from their family home. Overall an enjoyable read that gave me something to do on my long public transport journeys to work.As she is still trying to piece together clues about her twin sister’s disappearance thirty years before, Atlee heads to rural Georgia with her Bureau assistant. I am now waiting for the next in the series and hope it will not be long as there is a lot left in this storyline. 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.

Their father is dead - a declared suicide - and their mother inexplicably took off for parts unknown to Atlee. A strong story that keeps the reader engaged until the final reveal, with a wonderful cliffhanger, Baldacci has found new and exiting ways to mix story and character development in this piece. I was much more invested in Atlee’s personal investigation than the mystery surrounding the murders although that part of the story was well wrapped up. David Baldacci is also the cofounder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across America.

A lifelong Virginian, David is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia School of Law. Once again Baldacci has surpassed himself, and this series will no doubt appeal to ardent, long-term fans and those new to his novels too.

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.

She is still visiting convicted serial killer Daniel Tor in prison, in the hope of finding out if he might be the person responsible. 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. Baldacci but this one and the first of the Puler Series (Zero Day) are just too implausible and unbelievable for me. But in a small town full of secrets -- some of which could answer the questions that have plagued Atlee her entire life -- and digging deeper into the past could be more dangerous than she realizes .