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Books: The Hunt and A Mississippi Sunset
Today we are recommending The Hunt by Faye Kellerman. This is the 27th book in her series about Detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina, and their family. This book involves two separate cases. In the first case, Peter and his young partner, Tyler McAdams are on the trail of several missing people, but it quickly becomes a homicide case when one of them turns up dead. This part of the story is fairly easily resolved and never gets all that interesting.
The far more interesting part of the book revolves around two characters originally introduced in one of Kellerman's much earlier books, Chris Donatti and Teresa McLaughlin, the parents of the Decker's foster son, Gabe. Years earlier, Teresa left Chris when she became pregnant by another man. Now, Gabe asks his father to step in and help his mother, She has left her second husband and has been severly beaten, and her young son was kidnapped. Just like that Teresa is sucked back into Chris Donatti's world. Their relationship is at least as interesting if not more so than the mystery of what happened to her son and how Chris goes about trying to get him back. Their relationship is extremely toxic. He is controlling and can be abusive, and yet you can see how much he really loves her and how much he wants to change for her. Their relationship will really stir up your emotions. The two seem made for each other, and yet in so many ways, he is clearly so bad for her. You won't know whether to root for them or against them. If you like your mysteries with a healthy dose of relationship drama, you will really enjoy this one.
The second book we are recommending this week is A Mississippi Sunset by Linda Weaver Clarke. If you are more into straight romance, this book, the latest in the author's Women of Courage series, will be much more your style. Laura, the main character in the book, just may be Clarke's feistiest heroine yet. This courageous woman is not only determined to encourage other women to fight for their rights but brave enough to chase an intruder out of her home with a broom. When Deputy Davies, the brother of Serenity, the main character from Clarke's previous Women of Courage book, meets her he is instantly blown away by her beauty and spunk, and he can't help falling for her. She is quickly smitten with him as well. The only problem is she is engaged to somebody else.
This is another delightfully sweet love story from a master of the genre, Clarke. It also has more cameo appearances than ever from characters from the previous books in her Willow Valley Historical romance series. Despite this, you do not have to have read any of the previous books to enjoy this book or know what's going on. However, if you have read the previous books, all the cameo appearances will only serve to add to your enjoyment of the current book. All in all, if you are looking for a quick and charming historical romance, this one definitely fits the bill.
And that's our view. Tune in tomorrow for Where-To-Go Wednesday.
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