The Edge of Normal by Carla Norton is a debut psychological thriller about a young woman who escaped from captivity, and tries to recover her life while assisting new abduction victims (September 10, 2013).
Some books make you want to lock your doors and windows, and, like Santa and his list, check them twice. Carla Norton’s fiction debut, The Edge of Normal, is something to read outside. In a field. A really big field in a really flat place where you could see someone really scary coming from miles away. Think of the meadows in The Sound of Music where Maria frolics and sings and wears dresses made out of curtains. Just get rid of the Alps (such pesky mountains) and the Nazis (such pesky villains) and you’ve got the perfect setting for reading this book. Open air, flowers abloom, and no cellar torture chambers for miles (see why the Nazis need to go?).
Kidnappings aren’t new in crime fiction, nor, sadly, are they new in real life. In The Edge of Normal, 22-year-old Reeve LeClaire survived being held captive for nearly four years and she’s just starting to piece together a new life for herself. Until another 13-year-old, Tilly Cavanaugh, missing for 18 months, is found alive. While Reeve’s captor wiles away the years in a psychiatric hospital, the mastermind behind Tilly’s kidnapping, and possibly the abduction of two other teenage girls, is still at large. Along with Dr. Ezra Lerner, her psychiatrist—and perhaps the only person she truly trusts—Reeve leave the protective bubble of her daily routine in San Francisco and travels to Jefferson City, California to offer Tilly support.
[Even when their cages are gone, some remain captive...]
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