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Crime is on my mind

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Ink and Bone - Lisa Unger Hardcover, 352 pages  Published June 7th 2016 by Touchstone  Lisa Unger has crafted a fast paced, engaging, dark, thrilling, absorbing psychological novel that has plenty of twists and a couple of well-crafted surprises for the reader. From the outset you are thrown into the deep end as a young girl Abbey fights for survival and you know that nothing good is coming from this. As you are preparing to tumble of the chasm into darkness, Unger brings into Finlay who is coming to terms with her psychic abilities under the tutelage of her Grandmother Eloise. This is the real edge of your seat stuff and Unger as a writer has masterfully woven a thriller that has plenty of layers. You explore the grief, guilt and anguish of families who suffer the curse of not knowing what has happened to their child. It is harsh reading as the emotions are raw with the torment of that never ending hope their child is still alive. The characters are complex, loaded with baggag