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Still reeling from the devastating events that occurred in series debut The Damage Done, travel writer Lily Moore has been coaxed into going on a trip to Peru to hike the Inca Trail with her best friend, photographer Jesse Robb. Jesse figures that a combined vacation / work outing is just what Lily needs to help drag her out of the claws of grief and depression. Unfortunately, fate has other plans for Lily.She and Jesse are enjoying the misty early morning views at the famous Inca city of Machu
Even Hillary Huber’s awesome reading couldn’t save this book from itself.This was an odd book. Lily and her friend Jessie are in Peru. They are visiting Machu Picchu when they find a body. A woman has, apparently, been thrown down the steps and lies dying, at Lily’s feet.Of course, Lily can’t leave it alone. Jessie stays with Lily and together they try to find out why this woman was killed.The best part of the book were the descriptions of the tourist sites. The plot line was very far fetched, e...
I had the most delightful day yesterday. Sure, I was home, coughing and wheezing, all cuddled up in an afghan, drinking lots of tea, and feeling like the proverbial pile of crud. Sure, I felt physically miserable. But thanks to Hilary Davidson, my mind was totally caught up in The Next One to Fall. If you're going to be sick and miserable, the only thing that makes it at all redeemable is to have a good book to read. And I did.Ms. Davidson's first novel, The Damage Done was a well-crafted, d...
Travel journalist Lily Moore has been persuaded to visit Machu Picchu and Cusco by her best friend, photographer Jesse Robb. It’s been months since a family tragedy for Lily, and Jesse hopes to lift her spirits. Instead, the beginning of the trip find Lily holding the hand of a dying woman, who implicates her boyfriend in her death. The woman’s death strikes a chord with Lily, who can’t stop digging and pressuring the police, putting her own life in danger. I thought this would be a cozy, but it...
This second outing for travel writer Lily Moore is great for the explorer, armchair or not!. Lily and her best friend Jesse Robb arrive at Machu Picchu only to stumble upon a heated argument and a woman's fall to her death. Davidson includes fantastic location details and literary references as the suspense builds. Plenty of twists and turns kept this reader guessing and Davidson wraps it up neatly at the end. Throughout, descriptions of historical sites, art museums, the Incas and regional fare...
This was a great book. It kept you on the edge of the couch not wanting to put it down. Just when you thought you had it figured out, it turned out to be something different. It was a great book to read.
As much as I enjoyed The Damage Done, I liked this second Lily Moore book that much more.Jesse has talked Lily into a foreign vacation, trying to get Lily's mind off the death of her sister, Claudia. Of course, when a woman dies right at her feet, Lily Moore is reminded of her sister's death all over again. The dying woman's words: "Don't let him get away with it."As the local police don't seem helpful, Lily starts looking into the woman's past -- and the people who could have done this to her.
I thoroughly enjoyed Hilary Davidson's debut novel, The Damage Done, and I loved its sequel, The Next One to Fall even more. The Peruvian setting is so vividly portrayed that I feel as if I've been there. The story is exciting and suspenseful, the writing excellent, and the character portrayals truly outstanding in their complexity.I don't know what travel writer Lily Moore, still grieving for her dead sister, would do without her best friend, Jesse, a cheerful, Bible-quoting gay man from Oklaho...
Sometimes this trying to write gig makes me very depressed. Primarily when I read someone else's writing, their early books, even, and they're as good as this one was.It's true, you can see some unevenness in this thriller, but it's good enough that you can't help but be pulled along through it to the exciting conclusion.Davidson is another of the very sweet writers I've met at Bloody Words Mystery Conferences - kind to we newbies, sharing of knowledge and friendly. Hardly the sort of person you...
Hilary Davidson swung twice and has yet to miss. THE NEXT ONE TO FALL is very different from its predecessor as it focuses more on her protagonist Lily, instead of her difficult relationship to her sister. Claudia isn't left behind because she's the very reason why Lily and Jesse went visit Peru in the first place, but THE NEXT ONE TO FALL is more centered around her, what makes her motor run as a human being and how her upbringing still weight her down, to the point she throws himself in harm's...
One of the most intelligent, original mysteries I've read. It's part travelogue, giving the reader a strong sense of what it's like to visit Machu Picchu and other places in Peru. The mystery is a well-constructed puzzle that kept me guessing right until the end. What I loved most about this book were the characters, especially Lily Moore. She seems so frail at the start, but she gets stronger and fiercer as the story unfolds. Her grief and personal demons drive her throughout the book, but they...
