Product Description

Haunted by the death of her mother and tortured by the secret that died upon her best friend's lips, assistant district attorney Mary Crow is obsessed with finding the man who holds the key to both those tragedies.

When her infant goddaughter is kidnapped, Mary knows the hunt she's been dreading has begun. In a lethal game of cat-and-mouse that will take her along the Cherokee Trail of Tears, Mary must save the child of the man she loves while she rips the secrets from the heart of a killer who could be mistaken for the very devil himself.

Sallie Bissell, fast distinguishing herself as the Patricia Cornwall of the Appalachian Mountains, delivers a tour de force of relentless suspense and heart-stopping menace that Rendezvous raves "will leave you breathless."


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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2229028 in Books
• Released on: 2004-03-02
• Format: Large Print
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 496 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Cherokee Mary Crow, the assistant DA of Deckard County, Ga., and her old nemesis, Stump Logan, return in Bissell's third thriller, which is no less gripping than her lauded debut, In the Forest of Harm. Long presumed dead, Stump has crawled out of his hole with a new identity and a sinister plan to eliminate Mary. His bait: Mary's three-month-old goddaughter, Lily, daughter of Mary's ex-lover Jonathan Walkingstick and his new bride, Ruth. Mary has just finished her closing arguments for a kiddie porn conviction when she learns that Lily has been kidnapped. As Mary follows the kidnapper's trail, it becomes apparent that the kidnapper is far more interested in Mary than Lily. Bissell slips plenty of information from her earlier books into the story to keep readers up to speed, and some will be pleased to note that this book contains significantly fewer gruesome elements than her previous shockers. Though details of child endangerment and child pornography are still stomach-churning, Bissell's strong writing and clever, didn't-see-that-coming denouement will keep readers enthralled. If Bissell can better flesh out her characters' motivations, she may soon be keeping company with the likes of Tami Hoag and Sandra Brown.
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Review
"No less gripping than her lauded debut, In the Forest of Harm…. Bissell's strong writing and clever, didn't-see-it-coming denoument will keep readers enthralled."
--Publishers Weekly


From the Paperback edition.

About the Author
Sallie Bissell is a native of Nashville, Tennessee. She currently divides her time between Nashville and Asheville, North Carolina, where she is at work on her fourth novel of suspense.


From the Paperback edition.