Formula of Deception

Title: Formula of Deception

Author: Carrie Stuart Parks

Source: library

My Review:

This is a fairly quick-paced story, with a lot of moving parts and WWII history. 

Murphy's story is complicated. While the story is predictable in parts, the ending is very twisty. The odd thing is, I felt like I had read it before...so maybe another story had a similar ending.

There's not much you can say without giving spoilers, but the suspense element is strong, and there is little to no romance.

★★★/5

Synopsis (Goodreads):  

When her twin sister was murdered, Murphy Anderson changed her name and appearance and moved to Kodiak to avoid the press and publicity. But when local authorities discover she’s an artist and request her help in drawing a dying man’s memories, she unintentionally ends up in the limelight again—and may be back in the killer’s crosshairs.

The memory that Murphy was asked to draw was from an Alaskan hunter who discovered five bodies on remote Ruuwaq Island ten years ago, but has only shared the information with the police now that he’s dying of cancer. When they go to the island to investigate, no skeletons remain but there is evidence that the bodies may have been deliberately destroyed. But the big discovery is of a World War II Quonset hut.

As one by one the people who were at the hut die, Murphy knows there is something much deeper at stake. What happened there during WWII? And who is willing to kill to keep those secrets buried?