A review by myrdyr
Lie In Wait by Eric Rickstad

4.0

3.75/5 stars. I preferred Lie In Wait to The Silent Girls. There were still some awkward sentences. But. I didn't find them as distracting this time. Two major inconsistencies in this book did really bothered me, however. One was that in The Silent Girls, Test is described as being unhappily married with an addiction to running and food issues. Miraculously, all of these problems seemed to have resolved themselves between the first book and this one. The second inconsistency was with the text itself. At the start of Chapter 65, Victor is waiting at a coffee shop for Merryfield. He "sat all morning".... After a while, he gets some magazines at a local pharmacy, and returns to the coffee shop, "where fortunately the staff had changed for the late afternoon."...He sees Merryfield. "It was 4:42." He follows Merryfield into his office building and speaks to the receptionist. He wants to see Merryfield, and the receptionist replies, "I don't have anyone penciled in for this morning...." After a brief discussion, Victor states, "And he may not have expected me this very morning."
What? I had to read this chapter about 4 times to make sure I hadn't missed something. Apparently the town of Canaan, Vermont is not subject to the same laws of time as the rest of Earth. Sloppy editing, people.