PITCH BLACK
Author: Susan Crandall ISBN: 044617856X
6/2008 SUSPENSE Publisher: GRAND CENTRAL
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YOU NEVER SEE IT COMING.
A journalist who adopted a troubled teen, Madison Wade has tackled many challenges—but never one like this. Leaving Philadelphia for a small Southern town to give her son a better life, she's now in a tightly knit community that won't accept her big-city ways and Ethan's less-than-perfect past. When he's finally invited on a camping trip, it turns into a nightmare—and Ethan is suspected of murder.
YOU'LL NEVER HAVE A CHANCE.
Sheriff Gabe Wyatt doesn't want to believe this kid is guiltv. He's falling in love with Ethan's beautiful, sophisticated, and generous mother, the first woman who has ever awakened the tender side of this tough lawman. But he can't ignore evidence, even if it keeps him from getting close to the woman he longs to protect, even if it drives this fierce mother to track down the murderer herself—and on one terrible night, come face-to-face with her darkest fears.
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 RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:
I'll make this one short and to the point because I honestly do not have that much to say about it.
PITCH BLACK is just okay. It's pretty easy to figure out and not all that suspenseful or romantic. And not that my next point has much bearing on anything other than it serves to annoy me a bit, the title does not have much to do with what is written on the inside pages. Nope, there is no mass panic blackout and no one is trapped in a mine shaft. (Yeah, I'm a little bummed by that, too.) I suppose it can be argued that the authorities spend their time being stumped, or blind and in the dark, but even that is stretching it for me.
For a romantic suspense PITCH BLACK is pretty weak, but I have read worse so I guess that says something.
Shannon Johnson
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