Descent (Compact Disc)
Staff Reviews
This engrossing tale of a family devastated by the kidnapping of their daughter reads like a norse saga set in modern-day Colorado. Johnston's writing somehow makes the events seem inevitable, yet as the villain points out, it's all randomness and luck. The focus falls mostly on the taciturn father and son as they continue to search for the missing girl in a smoke-wreathed effort to make sense of a cruel and violent world.
— ChrisJanuary 2015 Indie Next List
“Descent is a gripping, utterly engrossing account of a girl's disappearance in the Rocky Mountains. The aftermath of this tragedy is told in alternating voices: the injured brother at the scene of the accident when she left with a stranger to get help; the mother who has been hospitalized and stunned into breathtaking grief; the father who has been unable to leave the small town where the family was vacationing when his daughter disappeared -- and most stunning of all, through the words of the victim herself. A real page-turner with a brilliantly conceived climax!”
— Kelly Estep, Carmichael's Bookstore, Louisville, KY
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