When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash (Goodreads Author)

When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I hated the ending and don't understand why Cash felt it necessary to kill the Sheriff off.

After the still birth of her son Colleen returns home to heal. Her Father Winston is busy with the investigation of a plane crash and murder as well as running his re-election campaign and caring for his wife who has cancer.

Winston's opponent (Brad Frye) is a developer who is trying to intimidate the local colored community into selling out so he can develop a larger gated community.

The victim at the plane crashed is an African American man (Rodney Bellamy) who had no reason to be there. Frye spreads the rumor that Rodney was involved in drug running and uses the rumor to get people to harass the Bellamy's.

The FBI agent sent to fly the plan out of there is pretty much invisible although Colleen gets a hint he isn't what he seems but she doesn't tell anyone and one plane ride cost her Father everything.

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A Darker Reality (Elena Standish, #3)

A Darker Reality by Anne Perry
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I found it rather slow going.

Elena is in America with her parents to visit her Mother's family for their 60th anniversary. She barely knows her Grandparents on her Mother's side, and is dismayed to find they seem to be pro-Nazi.

On the night of the party Elena takes photographs and a photo she takes is key to proving her Grandfather innocent of the murder of Lila who died during the party. But later Elena realizes that her Grandfather changed the time on the clock and therefore the photograph is a lie. She confronts him and he takes an overdose of his heart medication. His death allows the fiction of his innocence to continue.

In all honesty I wouldn't have enjoyed the book at all if it hadn't been for Allenby. I hope to see him in future books.

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The Burning (Clay Edison, #4)

The Burning by Jonathan Kellerman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

OK, it's getting annoying how often Clay assumes that Luke is guilty of something if he is even remotely connected to a crime. This time his assumptions cost Clay his job and almost cost Luke his life.

When a very wealthy man is found murdered by his housekeeper and Clay in his capacity as Coroner sees Luke's car in the man's car museum Clay automatically assumes that Luke had something to do with the murder, and starts trying to cover up Luke's involvement and track down Luke. But no one knows where he is. And unfortunately Clay keeps playing phone tag with Billy Watts, who could have put Clay on the right path.

It's only after Billy is shot that Clay realizes he got everything all wrong. His brother's disappearance, and the murder aren't a result of Luke's past but of Clay's Half Moon Bay

With Detective Cesar Rigo hot on Clay and Luke's trail Clay is forced into fleeing when the Dormer's contact him demanding that he come alone. Speeding to Luke's rescue he will do whatever it takes to save his brother.

Not sure what Clay's suspension means for the series.

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