"Hip replacements aren't normally used for road base."
Those words threaten to burn Texas Ranger Noah Morgan's carefully crafted world to the ground.
Texas Ranger Noah Morgan has his life together-with a great job and the girl of his dreams. Too bad it's all based on a lie. A single phone call threatens to bring it all crashing down. After an irate citizen complains shoddy workmanship has left him with a booby-trapped driveway, and the local sheriff's office is too busy to respond, Noah takes the call. The investigation of local scam artists uncovers a human trafficking ring.
Noah fights to avoid being swept back into the sights of his murderous family-people he escaped at the age of seventeen.
Can he keep his past a secret or will his oh-so-perfect life come to a violent end?
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The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter
: This story is similar in its blend of brutal crime investigations with deep-seated family trauma. Like Broken Toys, The Good Daughter is set in a small Southern town and features protagonists whose past suffering directly informs their present-day actions and the central conflict, forcing them to confront buried secrets.
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
: Thematic similarities are strong, as both explore how a traumatic event from the past irrevocably shapes the lives and relationships of the characters into adulthood. Both feature a dark, gritty atmosphere and a mystery that is deeply entangled with personal histories and broken loyalties.
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
: Broken Toys shares a similar tone of oppressive dread and a relentless, seemingly unstoppable antagonist. Seamus Gorman, like Anton Chigurh, operates with a twisted personal code and represents a chaotic force of violence that tests the protagonist's moral and physical limits within a stark South Texas landscape.