"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. A man who never reads lives only once." Jojen - A Dance With Dragons
Monday, February 6, 2017
Finished: Right Behind You (Gardner) The latest book by one of two authors whose every book I read! In this one, Gardner brings back the married duo of detective Rainie Connor and FBI profiler, Pierce Quincy. The very first book I ever read of Lisa Gardner's years ago involved a crime where Rainie and Quincy met and worked together. Several books later, they ended up married. I love the characters, love the books, and love that they are set on the Oregon coast! In this one, Rainie and Quincy are about to adopt their 13 year old foster daughter, Sharlah, who they took in three years before. Sharlah was only five when her abusive father stabbed her alcoholic mother with a butcher knife and watched as her father then tried to chase down her beloved, protective nine year old brother, Telly. Handing Telly a baseball bat, she then watched as her brother beat their father to death out of self-defense. Blacking out in the process, Telly also accidentally hit Sharlah and broke her arm. When authorities finally got involved, both kids were kept apart "for their own good" and put in separate foster homes. Having finally ended up with Rainie and Quincy, Sharlah hasn't seen Telly in eight years, when his face appears on a surveillance camera showing that he is the number one suspect in the deaths of a convenience store worker, another customer, and as the police soon discover, his two foster parents, great people who had taken him under their wing and were teaching the seventeen year old all about life skills, about caring about other people, about being part of a family. Could Telly really have murdered the only adults to ever have taken an interest in him? And, when Sharlah goes looking for Telly, will he still love his little sister or is she in danger? Another great, page-turning book, again set on the Oregon coast! :-)
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