One Step Too Far

 One Step Too Far is a crime novel written by Lisa Gardner. If I had known it was a crime  novel I wouldn't have borrowed it from the library. The story is about a woman named Frankie. Frankie has issues. Frankie works at low paying jobs. When she has a little saved up she helps find people who are missing. She is good at finding missing people. So far she has found 16. Why Frankie feels obliged to spend her time and resources finding people remains unclear to me. She hears about a guy named Timothy who went missing 5 years ago. His family is still searching in the forests of Wyoming. Timothy was with his four groomsmen at a bachelor party/backpack camping weekend when he went missing. Frankie takes a bus to Wyoming and hitchhikes to the town. She meets the search party at a restaurant and talks her way into being allowed to come. Timothy's father is in the group as well as a local woodsman. Timothy's four groomsmen, a woman with her cadaver finding dog, and another woodman are coming. The search party leaves early the next morning and hike 8 miles to the spot where Timothy was last seen. From the beginning things go wrong. Someone steals nearly all their food that was hanging in the trees to be safe from bears. One of the groomsmen is struck in the back of the head with a rock causing a concussion and a large gash. Obviously someone doesn't want this search party out here. I don't really like crime novels. I thought the ending where Frankie has a long monologue telling how it all went down was not good. I did enjoy reading about the cadaver dog, Daisy, and I also enjoyed reading about hiking and camping and survival skills.