Revenant by Carolyn Haines
Poll any serious genre fiction reader and you’ll quickly discover that they all have favorite themes, or elements, that can routinely pop up in fiction. When it comes to suspense novels, damaged characters with the stink of desperation clinging to them are my personal catnip. I love to read about characters that have been backed into a corner, either by life or their own doing, who must work their way free of their baggage. This works particularly well in suspense novels because the crime helps precipitate change, and serves as a wake-up call for the self-destructive, down-and-out protagonist.
