The Current by Tim Johnston
The Current by Tim Johnston begins with a tragedy. Audrey Sutter is coming home from college to visit her dying father. Her friend Caroline Price offers to give her a ride. Tragedy strikes on a snowy night. The girls stop for gas and to use the rest room. Leaving the rest room they are attacked by two men. They fight them off and escape only to end up off the road at the edge of the. River. After a stranger asks if they are ok .Soon another vehicle hits their car sending it into the frozen river!
Audrey is rescued but not Caroline. And the thoughts of the town turn toward the time ten years earlier when 19-year-old Holly Burke perished in the same river.
Now three families must relive that time. Gordon Burke grapples with the death of his daughter. While he relives the pain he felt when her murdered Danny Young was set free. Danny and his family must deal with the fact that everyone thinks you are the murderer. While you really can’t remember what helped. On the night of her death. And Audrey Sutter must face the case that her father the town Sheriff couldn’t solve! Can Audrey, Gordon and Danny unravel the mystery that intertwines their lives. Not only for themselves but for the girls in the river.
The Current is the second book I have read by Tim Johnston . The first one was Descent. I liked Descent a little better than The Current. I thought it was a little more suspenseful and had more action. While I enjoyed The Current there were times when I thought about giving up on the book. Things just didn’t unravel the way I thought they would. I kept thinking that there would be a greater connection beyond just the river.
A Revised Rating?
When I rated The Current on Goodreads I gave it 4 stars out of 5. However, the more I think about the book I think I’d rather give it about a 3.25 or 3.5. For me the book just lacked something and I’m really not sure what it was
Final Thoughts About The Current
I think The Current would appeal more to those readers who prefer analyzing the hows and why of character actions above the final resolutions of any mystery. I’m still wondering what really happened moments before Charlotte’s car went into the river. But then again like life there are many unanswered questions which haunt all our lives. Some of them are even connected. Hmm??
I found this quote about The Current when I was reading about it at IndieBound.org. The highligthed portion echoes my sentiments from above
“Tim Johnston’s brand of storytelling is a curious hybrid of conventional crime fiction and observation of human nature that demands attention. In The Current, Johnston goes beyond the sensational and asks relevant questions when tragedy strikes, addressing real topics that come with the loss of a loved one and the questions that follow a horrific crime. As with Johnston’s previous novel, Descent, his latest concludes with a wallop you will not see coming.”
— Javier Ramirez, The Book Table, Oak Park, IL
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