Until I catch up with all the books I have read this summer, I will continue to batch the books by subject. with fairly short comments. So many books, so many thoughts to sort through. So here goes. It is back to the mysteries again. This time by well now authors. We have QUEEN OF THE NIGHT BY J.A.Jance ( Morrow, ISBN 978-0-06-123924-3); VERMILLION DRIFT by William Kent Kreuger (Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-1-4391-5384-0); HANGMAN by Faye Kellerman (Morrow, ISBN 978-0-06-1702586-3) and PORTOBELLO by Ruth Rendell , (Scribner, ISBN 978-1-4391-4851-8).
Each time I read a Rendell book I am fascinated by her characters. This time is no exception. Eccentricity is the norm here and the characters are as varied as the wares that are available on Portobello Road. Eugene Wren is the eccentric and neurotic owner of an art gallery. He discovers an envelop containing quite a sum of money and decides to find the owner himself rather than going though the police. And this allows us to meet an assortment of characters and their friend.s There is a reformed crook who is a minister of sorts and his slightly off center young relative, Lance. There are also a few low life bullies to add to the mayhem. Eugene has a love life to sort out as well as the money to place and a strange addiction to a specific candy to contain.. Lance also has his lady love problems. All in all it is a clever and complex study of human behavior with a bit of mystery tossed in.
The Kellerman story is another Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus mystery. It involves a professional killer, his misguided wife, and a previous death, as well as their seemingly abandoned son as well as another investigation involving a murdered nurse and some strange goings on with her boy friend and the hospital where they work. And to add to Decker's problems, he is turning sixty. Lots of suspense as well as some good human interest.
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