One Perfect Lie - Lisa Scottoline

One Perfect Lie - Lisa Scottoline

She read

I enjoy Scottoline’s writing and have read all of her books featuring attorney Bennie Rosato.  This is outside of that series and with it, Scottoline has hit a home run! The development of all the various characters is excellent.  There is good insight into the mind of a (non sexual) predator and a twist (well more than one) that has you guessing and makes you not want to put down the book until the end.  As a bonus, you even learn a little about our government! The climax was a little over the top, but that didn't take away from my enjoyment of the book.  Be prepared to read this book well into the night……

Heartbreak Hotel - Jonathan Kellerman

Heartbreak Hotel - Jonathan Kellerman

She read

I am a fan of Kellerman's Alex Delaware series and this is his 32nd. You do not have to have read all the prior ones, but familiarity with characters is part of the charm of reading this series.  I enjoyed this one, as I have just about all of the others except for the one where it got a little supernatural.

Conviction - Julia Dahl

Conviction - Julia Dahl

She read

Julia Dahl has written two other books in the Rebekah Roberts series.  Rebekah is a journalist (alright, she works for a tabloid!) who seems to find cases to investigate that involve the Orthodox Jewish community as well as the wider community in New York.   There is good character development, the story moves along quickly, and held my interest throughout as the plot moved back and forth between the time right after the Crown Heights riots in the early 1990s and present (2014) time. I enjoyed this book and when I find the time, will go back and read the prior in the series.  I don't think that not having read the previous two books negatively affected my reading of this one.

Mangrove Lightning - Randy Wayne White

Mangrove Lightning - Randy Wayne White

She read.

This is the 24th in the prolific Doc Ford series written by White. I've read a few of his other books; if this had been the first one, I probably would have never read another.  Perhaps fans of his will enjoy the story, but I found it to be a bit of a jumble.  There is a subplot second story that never really seems to go anywhere, just adding to the muddle.  While I did enjoy some of the history of the southwest Florida area, this was not a pleasant story and a bit too misogynist and fragmented for me.