Review: Nine Years Gone - Chris Culver

Review: Nine Years Gone - Chris Culver - July 2014

Nine years have passed and now Dominique Girard has recently been executed and for a crime, he didn't actually commit.  For the past nine years, three friends Steve Hale, Vincent and Isaac have been living with a secret as nine years ago they helped their friend and Steve's girlfriend at the time disappear and they set her stepfather up to take the fall. Their plan worked perfectly as Tess vanished into the night and Dominique ended up having the lethal injection. Steve and the others moved on with their lives as Steve married Katherine and is expecting his first child and looks permanently after his niece. Isaac is busy dating Samantha - Tess's younger sister and Vincent is still continuing with life. Now Nine years later, Steve gets a phone call from Tess - who is back in town under the alias of Holly Olson. She wants Steve back in her life and to run away with her, the thing is Steve is happy with the life he has built. Tess won't take no for an answer and pulls Steve into a dangerous game of cat and mouse as he tries to protect not only his friends and their dark secret but also his newly built family. Tess is a different person now and blames Steve for the past nine years and wants revenge as in her eyes if she can't have him, then no-one can.  Can Steve protect his new life or will he find himself playing a very dangerous game with Tess to survive? Find out in this 2014 mystery read "Nine Years Gone". Nine Years Gone leaves, readers, wondering themselves, how far would they go to in order to keep a dark secret from bubbling to the surface.