Loved this book! I had a hard time putting it down and was late to work so I could finish it. Loreth Anne White has crafted a compelling, suspenseful and intriguing mystery. Police officer, Becca, receives a drunken phone call from her alcoholic ex-police chief father. He asks her about an incident that happened twenty years earlier in their home town of Cariboo Country in British Columbia. She puts it aside as a drunken delusion but is horrified the next day when she receives word that her father shot himself and his homestead had burned to the ground.

Becca rushes back to town and soon believes that her father's death was murder, not suicide. She runs into Ash Haugen, her high school boyfriend. Ash betrayed her twenty years ago by sleeping with Whitney, drove her to the bus station a few weeks later and Whitney was never seen again. Now it seems that Whitney may have been the victim of foul play and Becca's father was murdered for uncovering new clues in an old case. As Becca continues her father's investigation she uncovers so much more than she ever dreamed,

There is so much happening in this book in addition to the murder. White did an excellent job of conveying life in a small, rural town populated with colorful characters. She also describes the gorgeous wilderness that is a key component of the story. The Dark Bones is an excellent book and I look forward to reading more from this author. I appreciate the opportunity to read the ARC.

This was so good! I loved the characters and the story. The plots twists were great! I will for sure find more by this author!

I received a free copy of this in return for an honest review. This is an absolutely first rate thriller. Plot twists with enough clues for the reader to track their own theories of how it's going to end. Highly recommended.

This was a very intriguing mystery. Rebecca returns home when her father commits suicide, she feels guilty because she didn’t make time for him until it was too late. She decideds to pick up where her father a retired cop, left off and instantly walks into a very enthralling mystery filled lies, love and secrets that have been hidden for 20 years. This book did keep me guessing to the very end. I will definitely be reading more books from this author.

Apparently this is a sequel, which I hadn't read the first, but I don't think it made any difference to this book. At first the chapters jump around with people and timelines. There is a mystery from 20 years ago, then a mystery from the present, ultimately they all come together for a good mystery telling. Many characters, in fact I finally began writing down who all these people are and their connections to each other, kind of humorous when this is a very small town. In the end I did enjoy the book and it all made sense. A little romance, suicide cleared and missing people cases closed with an open end for maybe a sequel to this story.

Rebecca comes back home when her Dad dies. As a cop and daughter she believes there is more to the story that her dad committed suicide. While home she runs into her first (and only) love Ash. She is still distrustful of him because of how their relationship ended. But the story uncovers secrets from their past and reveals the answers to an unsolved mystery for the town. There are a lot of characters and twists to the story. The story kept me guessing. It was well written. I read it in a day. I received an advance copy from Netgalley for an honest review. I would recommend.

** Received an ARC through Netgalley **
Loved this second book in Ms White’s Dark Lure series, just as I’ve loved all the other books I’ve read by this author.

Ms White’s characters are multi-layered, the crimes are always deeply personal to the main characters and Ms White doesn´t shy away from putting her characters through the most horrible scenarios. In this book, the inner demons and external bad guys (this is a thriller), are matched with an amazing setting: rural interior Canada in winter.

This second book is a standalone, in the sense that the main couple and the crime isn’t connected to that of the first book in this series. The connection is most pronounced in the first quarter of the book, and shows the main characters of the first book as they struggle with their life in the aftermath of the horror that was book 1. The link is because one of them plays a part in the crime that’s the focus of the second book.

Gut Wrenching Psychological Thriller! I have to admit full disclosure I am huge fan of Loreth Anne White. I thought I had read Book 1 in the Lure series when I asked for this arc, but I had not. There was no problem what so ever reading this, it can definitely be read as a stand alone, Book 1 would make you more familiar. You are caught right off the bat with the prologue, running, ducking, searching and it keeps going. There isn't non stop action, but there is non stop suspense. Rebecca look out, be careful. Ash what is so dark, Tori so faithful to RIck and Rick trying to do the right thing. This book touched so many emotions, and touched on so many issues in life, rape, molestation, drugs, family, love, second chances and hope. This was a one setting read, having to lay the book aside or a few minutes here and there to breath. So grateful to Loreth Anne White, Montlake Publishing and NetGalley for this arc!

A cold case that has never been solved brings back a woman who is morning the loss of her father and trying to bring back his honor. The characters are remarkable and truly pull at your heartstrings. They move at a remarkable speed to get to the truth and bring love back into their lives.

Set in winter in British Columbia the descriptions make you feel and appreciate the cold, dark, beautiful landscape. Small town "knowledge" is so real and often so wrong but everyone knows everyone and everyone's business, or do they? Against that setting there are two intertwined, oh so much, stories set 20 years apart. Suicide, or is it, of a retired policeman still investigating cold cases, other accidents, or are they? Missing teenagers 20 years ago, survivors of that time now in their late 30s and having moved on, or have they? Current teenagers struggling to grow up in a dark world. The characters are well defined and the reader can empathise with their problems, some of them anyway. The two main characters are strong and apparently very different now, they have history, do they have future? The story keep the reader fully enthralled right to the end making it an engrossing read.Thanks to NetGalley and Montlake Romance for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

Entertaining read. Great characters. Good plot and story. Kept you wanting to get back to it. Enjoyed this book.

A well written and entertaining thriller.
I was hooked since the first pages and I loved it.
I liked the style of writing, the fleshed out characters, and the setting.
The mystery was solid and it kept me guessing till the end.
I will surely read other books by this author.
Recommended.
Many thanks to Montlake Romance and Netgalley for this ARC. I voluntarily read and reviewed this book, all opinions are mine.

Absolutely fantastic, suspenseful murder mystery! This story had it all, two small town teens disappear 20 years ago and the mystery was never solved until now! A retired cop comes across new evidence and is killed because of it so his daughter Rebecca comes home and starts putting all of the clues together and has the case reopened. Those small towns where everyone knows everyone isn't always a good thing. It was so much fun putting the clues together with Rebecca and I've never rooted for a book couple more than her and Ash! This was a great book that peeled back the layers and kept me hooked right up until the fantastic ending! Thank you so much to Netgalley for allowing me to read an ARC. All opinions are my own.

This book is cleverly written. It’s a rather dark read, sort of haunting. The characters are richly detailed and my heart broke for a few of them. This book is swamped with emotion. I was fully engaged and couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. I received an advance review copy from NetGalley for an honest review.

An intriguing thriller. It will keep you hanging on for dear life until the last moment. Well written with interesting characters you can identify with, for yourself or someone you know. This is considered to be a "Dark Lure" book, however, you do not need to read the first novel- "A Dark Lure" in order to keep up with the story. They are considered stand-alone. However, the first is excellent and gives you a bit of a backstory.

This is a dark thriller with spine-tingling suspense and a second-chance romance. None of the characters are perfect, but they are memorable, which I love about Loreth Anne White's stories. This was a great read!

The Dark Bones is a brooding, atmospheric novel backdropped against the harsh wintry British Columbia landscape. Rebecca North is filled with regret for failing to return home until her father's suicide. When she does come back, it doesn't take long before she is questioning the circumstances of his death. She enters an uneasy truce with former lover Ash Haugen, who broke her teenaged heart. It isn't only their past that keeps her from fully trusting him--she knows he's harboring secrets. She just isn't sure whether those secrets will destroy them both.

Masterfully written, The Dark Bones grips the reader from the first page until the pulse-pounding conclusion.

Rebecca didn’t have time to talk with her father, Noah North, but she took his call and sluffed him off. He was drunk, again, and insisted he had to talk with her – in person. She dismissed his urgency and went about her work, which was urgent, more urgent than dropping everything and heading off to her father’s distant home. This mistake came back to haunt her when she arrived in Devil’s Butte almost a week later. Her father is dead, suicide they say, but Rebecca doesn’t buy it. He would never do that, she thought, but the circumstances seem compelling. Until, that is, she starts putting the pieces together herself.

Ash Haugen, Rebecca’s first love, was apparently the last person to see her father alive, but he is adamant that Noah was alive when he left the cabin and did not seem despondent or suicidal. Ash, too, believes there is more to the story and wants to help Rebecca get to the bottom of it. At the same time, he hopes he can rekindle her love for him.

You get to meet the town gossip, the do-nothing sheriff, a couple of teenagers who may have seen something, and other townsfolk who may or may not have the best interest of the truth in mind. An old mystery, too, has its place in the story of Devil’s Butte’s history when a couple of teenagers disappeared over 20 years ago. Is that somehow tied in with the death of Rebecca’s father? In the end, all the pieces fall into place but they may not fall where you expect them to. A good mystery with an ending that will surprise you.

Thank you, Net Galley, for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Received this in exchange for a review from Net Galley I did not know this was a series until I began reading and thought there was a lot of back story. But not a problem. This very good mystery stands alone.
I found this to be very well written, fast moving and beliveable
Police officer Rebecca has returned to her home in BC during the winter due to the alleged suicide of her father, but more witnesses and suspects start to come to light as Rebecca tries to figurer what old case her retired police officer dad was working on.
I could almost feel the cold as the narrative was so well done.
I will read more from this writer
I was unable to write a review on Amazon as the book has not been released

3 1/2 stars. This is my first book by this author and I thought the writing was good and the mystery kept me wondering. But by the end I wasn't left with a wow factor. It wasn't even the protagonist who solves the final piece of the mystery which in my opinion was a big piece. Someone else just comes in and states -hey this is what happened.

SPOILERS: Rebecca figuring out it was Tori in the shed was almost laughable. She barely, and I mean almost not at all, knew this girl and jumps to the conclusion it was her based on some shoe prints, hand print and a piece of hair (none of which was analyzed). I guess the hair had a wave to it which led her to deduce who's it was. SPOILERS DONE

I also felt Rebecca's thoughts were getting a little too repetitive. We understand you love him but don't want to love him.

Anyway I didn't hate the book I just didn't love it. I would definitely give this author another try.