Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Silent Corner

I enjoyed Dean Koontz's latest, "The Silent Corner", although I will admit to being perturbed that his leading ladies seem to be getting younger and younger and younger to the point where they are unbelievable. Jane Hawk is no exception. She's twenty-seven (27!!), an FBI agent, skilled and wise and mature, a widow and a mother to a five year old. When did she have time to rise so high in the FBI's ranks? Not that it can't be done but...really? He could have made her 35 or something and I totally would have believed it. At any rate, Jane's husband, another uber-overachiever (full colonel at 32...) committed suicide, and Jane knows damn well Nick would never have killed himself. She takes a leave of absence from the FBI and starts investigating the surprising rise in suicides over the last few years, especially of people who, like Nick, would be the last people to ever kill themselves. The path Jane starts down is dangerous, her life and the life of her child is threatened, and she goes off the grid to continue her hunt. There will be a sequel, so it ended on that note.

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