Hardcover blurb: When private investigator Nick Heller moves back to Boston to set up his own agency, he soon gets an urgent case even closer to home than expected.
Alexandra Marcus - teenage daughter of hedge fund titan Marshall Marcus - has been kidnapped. But it's no ordinary kidnapping - and it's not even clear what they want. She's been abducted by professionals and buried alive in an underground casket. A video camera is streaming her desperate pleas live over the internet. With only a limited supply of food and water, her time is quickly running out.
Nick, a close friend of the family, is more determined than ever to catch the perpetrators. But when Marshall is arrested for fraud, Nick uncovers some powerful enemies and a conspiracy that reaches up to the very highest levels of government. Faced with opponents well-protected by wealth and position, Nick must play a dangerous game if he hopes to flush out those responsible before Alexa is buried for good...
What does it feel like to be buried alive? Joseph Finder tells us:
Finder's chilling new trailer:
One more video on Finder's latest thriller:
My take: I have been reading book series back-to-back for the past year and a half and the way it is, I am not slowing down yet. I think reading book series is de rigeur for all booklovers in this time and age as well as for writers who seem to be publishing more and more book series down the road because they sell and are popular with readers.
Buried Secrets (published in June 2011) is no exception. If you had read Vanished, the first Nick Heller novel, you would not want to miss Buried Secrets, the second Nick Heller novel as well as Finder's tenth novel, for Nick Heller is a man who literally beats the odds. Finder's novels have been widely praised for their authentic detail, which he gathers from his extensive contacts, both in the intelligence community and in executive suites around the world.
This is an excellent and solid modern thriller series. Buried alive is also known as premature burial or vivisepulture and is one of the most terrifying of all terrifying things anyone could ever imagine. Buried Secrets is one of those books with short chapters which make it very easy to read and a riveting page-turner. Enjoy the story, you won't be disappointed.
There are more excellent reviews on the author's official website if reviews are anything to go by.
Rating: 5/5
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