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Saturday, December 29, 2018
Mystery Opener A Little Disappointing Despite Positive Buzz
7:03 PM
(Image from Barnes & Noble)
After being wounded in Afghanistan a year ago, retired U.S. Army Corporal Mercy Carr is back home in Vermont to recover. She's also mourning her fiancé, who was killed in action. The 29-year-old is not alone in her sorrow—she's adopted Martinez's bomb-sniffing dog, a PTSD-laden Belgian shepherd named Elvis. Together, the pair spend their days hiking off their grief in the Green Mountains. Their peace is interrupted one day when they find a crying infant alone in the wilderness, perched not far from where Elvis alerts to the presence of both explosives and human remains. Shocked by the discovery, Mercy calls the authorities.
Troy Warner, a U.S. game warden, is called to the scene. Immediately intrigued by both the situation and the beautiful corporal, he enlists Mercy's unofficial help with the investigation. Along with his patrol dog, Susie Bear, the four make a powerful team. Together, they uncover an intriguing mystery featuring a missing mother, an endangered infant, and a possibly explosive situation at the town's Fourth of July celebration. It's up to the four of them to get to the bottom of the situation before it gets horribly—fatally—out of hand.
Despite the positive buzz I've heard about A Borrowing of Bones, a debut novel by Paula Munier and the start of a series, I actually found the book to be a bit of a disappointment. Although it stars a quartet of appealing characters, the humans are not very well developed. The minor cast members suffer from the same problem, so much so that I had a hard time keeping track of who was who. The plot is interesting enough, but it's bogged down by detail-heavy overwriting. I did enjoy the small-town setting, as well as the fact that A Borrowing of Bones is unusually clean for a crime novel. Overall, then, I liked the book enough to pick up the next volume in the series, but I'm not exactly chomping at the bit.
(Readalikes: Hm, I can't really think of anything. Can you?)
Grade:
If this were a movie, it would be rated:
for mild language (no F-bombs), violence, and innuendo
To the FTC, with love: Another library fine find
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I won a copy of this one earlier in the year and haven't read it yet. I will because I want to pass it along to a mystery group member who loves, loves, loves dogs and the whole 'working' dog theme.
ReplyDeleteI just finished reading this one and I actually really liked it...especially the characters! It's funny how two people can read the same book and have totally opposite reactions to it. :D
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