Terri Blackstock’s new novel is a well-paced page turner on justice, freedom, and the innate goodness of human beings even in the face of difficult situations.
In If I Run, Blackstock puts the spotlight on Casey Cox, a caring young lady who suffered a traumatic past when, at 12 years old, she discovered her father dead in what seemed to appear as a suicide. Thirteen years after her father’s death, she found his friend Brent murdered in his apartment. In a mission to revive Brent, the entire crime scene is now swimming in DNA, footprints, fingerprints which the crime scene investigators can easily track back to her. With a prior experience with injustice in the hands of the police, Casey decided to flee, leave Shreveport, and go in hiding. Meanwhile, Brent’s parents hires Dylan Roberts, a childhood friend of Brent, as a private investigator and work with the police to catch Casey.Continue reading“Well-paced page turner on justice, freedom, and the innate goodness of humans (If I Run)”