Summary:
Bree McGowan wants nothing more than to have a relaxing vacation away from her native Vermont, and take a few photos of a bridge over a Californian river while her boyfriend does some masonry for a client. But her hopes are dashed when she sees a woman fall off the bridge into the river. From there, she gets wrapped up in the investigation of the whole thing, despite seeing nothing but a falling body, despite flying home to Vermont, despite all the effort made to keep her safe and sound. She wants nothing to do with the case, and yet she keeps getting dragged into it. What's a girl got to do to keep herself out of trouble?
Thoughts:
I found this through one of the Free Kindle Book search sites, the ones that troll through Amazon's site to pull out all the current free downloads. I didn't have high expectations, since several of the Kindle books I've picked up have been fairly mediocre.
That said, this one is not bad. There were a few holes in the story (how does Bree suddenly know the vic's name, without showing her hunting for the info?), and there were some gaps in the narrative. But the story itself is solid. You hate to love one of the bad guys, but he turns out to be such an interesting character! Around every corner, I kept wanting Bree to just suck it up and call the cops, but she kept getting into another scrape, and had no chance to do it. You couldn't help but feel bad for Bree. All she wanted was to be back home in Vermont. And when she finally gets there, trouble still follows her. The girl's got it pretty rough.
I can't say for sure if I liked the book enough to read more. I'm curious to see what happens with Bree and the eventual love interest, but some of the scenes feel herky-jerky, and not fully complete. I do appreciate, though, that Bree's trying NOT to be involved in the investigation for once, instead of most nosy-neighbor main characters in mystery series. It's hard to really know all that's going on, though, when we only hear about Bree having looked up the victim's information, not actually see her reading a news article about her or something. More show, less tell.
Book 15 of 50
Pages: 252, read as an e-book.
Genre: mystery
Grade: B-/C+
Would I Recommend?: Yeah, it's not bad. I might look into the first (and third) of the series.
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