The River Sorrow

Newcomer Craig Holden， one of the new generation of outstanding contemporary fiction writers， delivers a riveting novel set in the stark， bleak plains of the Midwest -- the Midwest of strip malls and dilapidated， long-abandoned steel mills. The Midwest of Morgantown General Hospital in southern Michigan. When a burn victim is brought into the ER， a young doctor's life is changed irrevocably. For the arrival of John Doe is just the beginning of a nightmare that will hurtle Dr. Adrian Lancaster into the netherworld of violence and obsession that once nearly destroyed him. Suddenly Lancaster finds himself the prime suspect in a string of murders. Shadowed by police and seeking refuge in the arms of a mysterious young woman， Lancaster risks his career and his life to fo