20 Minutes in the Desert (20 Minutes #12) by Daniel Hurst
Genre: Psychological thriller, Quick Read, Novella
Read: 28th February 2025
Published: 6th May 2021
★★★★★ 5 stars
DESCRIPTION:
The 20 Minute Series continues at dawn in the desert...
Set just nine hours after the events in Las Vegas, the fates of several characters will be revealed as the sun comes up over the Mojave.
There is plenty to do in Sin City. And there are a lot of places to hide a body in the desert...
MY THOUGHTS:
Just nine hours after the events in "20 Minutes in Las Vegas", we pick up as the sun rises over the Mohave desert and the bright lights of Sin City. But with the rising sun is the rising bodycount of this series. But who will fall victim to Hurst's pen this time?
Jelena watches the sun rise from the balcony of their suite in The Bellagio whilst Bogdan enjoys an early morning helicopter flight over the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam.
Fireman Curtis and his wife Karen are also on the joyflight which soon takes a horrifying turn.
Black Jack dealer Nancy returns home after her long shift at the casino to the secrets she has buried there but stops short when her house shudders and she sees black smoke on the horizon.
Ethan is only a step away from winning with $10 million in the poker tournament. But can he do it? He knows he has a good hand, but is his opponent bluffing?
Lindsey is at the airport with a throbbing hangover awaiting their flight back home to the UK but where is Diego?
Louise is enjoying having her brother in her life and although they are returning under a bleak circumstances, she squeezes his hand to let him know she's there.
Harry found himself in some mischief getting lost in the maze of underground sewer tunnels the night before but his friends scarpered leaving him lost and scared, until Betty helps him back to daylight.
Jill's new habit of saying yes to everything has landed her in a world of trouble and now she must try and dig her way out.
Tom is hot on the trail of Valentin and Kelly is hot on his tail...but will he manage to learn enough to take back to his boss in the UK?
April is still thinking about the medium from the night before and does a little digging using the name she was given. But is it enough?
There were a few others peppered throughout and only one new face this time given they were all returning from the previous book or beyond - Betty, who helped Harry out of the tunnels.
I actually enjoyed this book more than I thought I would given it's locale and I am eager for the return to the UK to see how life will pan out in the aftermath of all that took place in this one. As usual, a lot going on but still Hurst manages to keep us entertained and invested in most of the characters' lives as we follow their respective, and interconnected, lives. I devoured this quick read in an afternoon.
Next...20 Minutes on the Road
MEET THE AUTHOR:
He has been employed in several glamorous roles in his lifetime, including bartending, shelf stacking and procurement administration, all while based in some of the most exotic places on the planet, like Bolton, Preston and South London.
Daniel writes psychological thrillers and loves to tell tales about unusual things happening to normal people. He has written all his life, making the progression from handing scribbled stories to his parents as a boy to writing full length novels in his thirties. He lives in the North West of England and when he isn’t writing, he is usually watching a game of football in a pub where his wife can’t find him.
Since following his lifelong passion for writing in 2020, he has amassed a loyal and devoted set of readers, and regularly has several books in the top 100 of the Psychological Thriller Charts on Amazon. His title The Passenger became the #1 selling psychological thriller in the UK in October 2021. The Doctor's Wife is his first publication with Bookouture.
A prolific writer, Daniel likes to keep readers on their toes by self publishing even more books in between those released through his publisher.
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