I'm three books behind and with a long weekend ahead of me with plenty of time to read I'd better catch up.
I grieved the loss of Robert B. Parker a few months ago because as creator of Jesse Stone mysteries I was uncertain about my hero's future. So when Split Image came out I relished it. I didn't just read it I devoured it. What happens when two enemy gansters marry twin sisters and one of their "employees" winds up dead? While Jesse is trying to sort this out, his on-again-off-again girlfriend Sunny Randall comes to Paradise for a case of a missing teenager holed up in a cult compound in Paradise. Jesse continues to fight the demons of alcohol and his ex-wife.
Ever since I watched the movie First to Die Based on James Patterson's book I've wanted to read the Women's Mystery Club series. I started with the first book and thoroughly enjoyed it. I plan to continue to read the series with a homicide detective, a pathologist, a assistant district attorney and a crime reporter who step outside the lines to brainstorm cases they are working on. I'm looking forward to reading book 2 and then finally finished with 9th judgment.
Finally on my day off I read Exposure by Brandilyn Collins. I couldn't put it down. I read it in one day. It deals with fear, not just being scared of bugs or clowns or storms, but brain-numbing, heart-stopping fear. The kind that freezes you into inaction. The kind of fear that makes it hard to breath. The first few chapters hit too close to home for my comfort. But the mysteries had me intrigued and no matter how uncomfortable the subject was I had to keep reading. I was so spellbound by the characters and the mysteries that I didn't even see the end coming. Was it a happily-ever-after ending, no, I don't think so. But the ending made me smile in relief when it got there.
