The Current, Tim Johnston
The Current, Tim Johnston
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The Current
A Novel

Author: Tim Johnston

Narrator: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Unabridged: 14 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/22/2019


Synopsis

In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town, state troopers pull two young women and their car from the icy Black Root River. One is found downriver, drowned, while the other is found at the scene—half frozen but alive.

What happened was no accident, and news of the crime awakens the community's memories of another young woman who lost her life in the same river ten years earlier, and whose killer may still live among them.

Determined to find answers, the surviving young woman soon realizes that she's connected to the earlier unsolved case by more than just a river, and the deeper she plunges into her own investigation, the closer she comes to dangerous truths, and to the violence that simmers just below the surface of her hometown.

Grief, suspicion, the innocent and the guilty—all stir to life in this cold northern town where a young woman can come home, but still not be safe. Brilliantly plotted and unrelentingly propulsive, The Current is a beautifully realized story about the fragility of life, the power of the past, and the need, always, to fight back.

About Tim Johnston

Tim Johnston, a native of Iowa City, is the author of The Current and the New York Times bestseller Descent, as well as a young adult novel, Never So Green, and the story collection Irish Girl, winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer

A captivating, perfectly written and definitely not a typical thriller book. It’s so much better. You have to give your full attention for catching jumps in time. The story telling was brilliant and characters are depicted so realistically. It may be a little shorter but I still enjoy every page of......more

Goodreads review by JanB

"Because it was only girls…in the river…it’s always been only girls.”   In a small town in Minnesota, in the depths of winter, a car with two girls goes in the river, but only one girl survives. The survivor claims they were pushed into the river. The crime is eerily similar to the death of a young gi......more

Goodreads review by Susanne

4 Stars. A Taut, Tension filled Thriller that kept me on my Toes! When two girls go into the river, only one comes out, nineteen year-old Audrey Sutter. Ten years ago another girl’s life was lost to that same river: Holly Burke - her death was suspicious and though there was a suspect, he was never c......more