![]() ![]() ![]() It's well-written, honest, and a gut punch that leaves readers thinking about it for weeks after reading it. Detective Tracy Crosswhite has agreed to look into the disappearance of investigative reporter Lisa Childress. From seeing the micro-aggressions and posttraumatic stress brought on by a frightening encounter with the police, to experiencing the everyday details of first relationships and parental expectations, readers slip easily into Justyce's mind and feelings, truly going on this journey with him.ĭear Martin is told in an alternating mix of third-person narration, script-like dialogues, and letters to Martin Luther King Jr. Solving a decades-old disappearance sets Tracy Crosswhite on a dangerous collision course with the past in a pulse-pounding novel by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni. Stone moves beyond character archetypes into fully realized humans with a depth and fragility that's sometimes lost in current-events novels. ![]() Dear Martin author Nic Stone manages not only to maintain the characters' humanity in what could easily become a paint-by-number pulled-from-the-headlines story, but also breathes a realness into each character so they become just like people readers already know. Endearing and painfully realistic, this could be a news story any day in America. ![]()
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