Last Light (Beacon Falls 1)

Author/Guide: C J Lyons

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2000s: A former FBI agent becomes a PI and her first case is a very unusual one.

ISBN: 978-1939038401
Genre: Crime, Thriller

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What you need to know before your trail

Lucy Guardino used to be a proud FBI agent but when a violent predator targets her family and she’s injured, she gives up her career with the FBI in order to keep her family safe.
Missing her work, she gets a job with the Beacon Group, a private consulting firm that specializes in cold cases and bringing justice to forgotten victims. Lucy fears that the fall from the FBI to this amateur groups may not have been the right move.
Her fears appear justified when she’s partnered with TK O Connor, a former Marine MP struggling with her transition to life back home in the US. However they’re soon sent to rural Texas on their first case.
But this case is unusual from the start -the killers of Lily Martin, her infant daughter, her husband, with her young son left for dead.

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Travel Guide

Oh the yellow road of Texas…

Abilene, Texas

Frontier Texas is a good place to start any trail of the Abilene area. Set right in the heart of the town between the orginal town north and the original town south,it’s very well located and will show the history of this small yet fascinating Texan gem

Beacon Falls

“Beacon Falls, the hamlet where the Beacon Group had their headquarters, was an easy drive from Lucy’s home on Pittsburgh’s Southside, especially since she could take back roads winding over the hills of West Mifflin.”

She stands on the bluff overlooking the Monongahela River and remembers the people who have lived there over the years including the Iroquois, then the French and the British colonists who have had outposts here and bonfires, so a very unique place and setting with history and as she puts it “tactical advantages”

Streetview Maps

B) CT - Beacon Falls

B) CT - Beacon Falls houses

Booktrailer Review

Susan: @thebooktrailer

I was intrigued by this book from the world go. A cold case murder in a small town and a former FBI agent on the hunt for the real killers? Sounds like a good thriller to me. And it was. Character driven and with a gutsy main character who was a unique as I’ve come across in a long while. It actually read as if this were a real case – not that it was heavy like documentary style, far from it, but it just had realism woven into the pages. Turns out the author has experience of the US police force and you can tell. Her cases inspired her she says and if this one is even a fraction true, I take my hat off to you CJ.
Lucy and TK spent a lot of time in the field (look at me talking like a seasoned FBI officer!) whilst the team stay back in HQ but this had the advantage of the readers seeing every side of the investigation and through very different eyes which for me made the whole scenario as realistic as an American real crime drama.
It was disturbing in places but very realistic and neatly done.The characters so well drawn with interesting backstories that, this being the first novel in a series, you just know you’ve read some clues for what is ti come. I can’t wait to be honest. I’m slightly overcome and at a lost after that ending so I’m going to have to get back to Beacon Falls real soon.