A skeleton is discovered! It’s the body of a young-teen that went missing thirty years ago when she was on a camping trip with six of her friends! The case is reopened! Old memories are dredged up! You get the drill. This is a totally serviceable little genre novel. There’s nothing new here in terms of structure or characters or procedure or anything. None of the characters really come to life and the plot is pretty predictable. It’s written well enough to be entertaining and it does have one really suspenseful sequence near the end of the book involving a police officer tailing a drug dealer. The book does do one kind of interesting red herring which is that about half-way through the book, the main cop starts acting weird and suddenly the book makes you wonder if he, who is also from the area where the crime was committed thirty years ago, might be the killer. Unfortunately, the book spoils this by announcing at the very front of the novel that this is the first in a series about this cop, so that whole thing is kind of wasted since you know he’s not the killer. Anyway, doesn’t even really stand out among its genre; nothing particularly awful, but also just not worth your time. 2 ½ stars.
tl;dr – occasionally entertaining genre novel has nothing new to add to its cliched story and characters; not particularly bad, just not of any real interest. 2 ½ stars.