⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ As a Minnesota native, I always get a little thrill when a novel captures the setting with real authenticity—and Allen Eskens *nails* it in *The Stolen Hours*. From downtown Minneapolis to the courthouse corridors, his descriptions feel lived-in and true. I’ve been to many of the places he references, and it made the story all the more vivid. This is a fast-paced legal thriller that follows Lila Nash, a young assistant county attorney still haunted by a brutal assault in her past. When a woman is pulled from the Mississippi River barely alive, Lila starts connecting dots that others have missed—and realizes a predator has been hiding in plain […]