I love Brian Freeman's Jonathan Stride books. Love. Love. Love them! I naturally had to read The Bone House, actually I listened to it on CD. This one just didn't do it for me like the Stride books did, though. It was a great setting, Wisconsin's Door County and the cop was different, and very cool, Cab Bolton (often called "Catch a Cab Bolton" because he runs away when things get tough, can't seem to stay in one place for long, has demons of his own). But the main couple in this book, Mark and Theresa, man. They were just too much in love. I saw that out right because most people wouldn't find this to be a problem, but I don't like to mix romance with murder. Deep, lovey-dovey stuff with detective grit. That's just me. Mark and Theresa are teachers and Mark lost his job teaching high school because of suspicion surround him and teenage student. The student denied that anything inappropriate had ever happened, so Mark never faced charges, but the suspicion stayed around. Now the sister of the girl he may or may not have had an affair with when he taught school winds up murdered on a beach in Florida. Mark and his wife just happened to be there, too, attending a dance competition, as were the sisters.Glory is the murdered girl and she has a troubled past, very troubled for a sixteen-year-old.
All signs point to Mark as the murderer at first.
Honestly this was a great mystery. The end is quite a surprise. If lovey-dovey doesn't bother you, I would recommend it for sure.
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