Pines (#1,136) is Blake Crouch's homage to the old TV program Twin Peaks. It's the first of a trilogy which starts out as your typical thriller: Secret Service Agent Ethan Burke is sent from his Seattle home office to investigate the disappearance of two other Secret Services agents in the remote Idaho town of Wayward Pines. He and his fellow agent are involved in a car accident when they arrive, but when Burke awakes, he has no memory of what actually happened to him. Nor can he find anyone else in this picture-perfect town who remembers the accident, or what happened to his wallet, badge or gun.
There are chase scenes and mysterious activities around town, culminating in Burke's discovery of the decaying body of one of the agents he was sent to find, but his report of the crime leads instead to his own desperate attempt to escape Wayward Pines.
It's not until the very end that the reader learns the truth of what's been happening in town, and that puts this story very firmly in sci-fi territory. I'm looking forward to reading, as Paul Harvey would have said "The rest of the story..."
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