A review by cjmichel
Buried by Kendra Elliot

4.0

A busload of children went missing 20 years ago. Two years later, one student stumbles out of the forest near death - dirty, emaciated, beaten and bruised. As he finally attains his freedom, he is determined to never divulge the events that took place during his captivity. He claims he remembers nothing.

Jump back to the present and the bodies of the missing students from the bus have been located - all except for two: the boy who crawled out of the woods two years after the disappearance of the bus and the son of the Senator who was on that same field trip. As long dead secrets are revealed through the study of the bones of those lost children, the Senator's younger son (Michael, who is now a journalist) wonders if any of the reports being released from the police, can help recover the missing memories of the one known remaining survivor. Michael seeks out Jamie, the sister to the survivor who has gone into hiding, in an attempt to see if Chris can remember any details about Michael's brother.

The sadist tormentor gets the same idea. As new bodies begin to surface, the race is on to solve this long ago travesty before the new body count nears the old.

While some twists were predicable, others were not. The novel keeps the reader hooked to the end.