Reviewed By: Jon Jordan - Crime Spree Magazine - RAM
Barbados Heat
Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
Don Bruns
Class/Genre: Mystery
2003, St. Martins Minotaur 302 pages / $ 24.95
When sitting down to a great meal logic would say to eat slowly, savor every bite, make the enjoyment last. Unfortunately I tend to be more like a little kid with dessert and eat quickly, and then sit wanting more. I mention this because this is similar to reading the latest Don Bruns book. Barbados Heat is wonderful and I wanted to make it last. I wanted to savor it. But I just couldn’t. I read fast, like a reader starved for adventure through words. Bruns writes with an inviting style that makes you want to come in and stay a while. His characters are quickly old friends.
In this, his second book, the main character, Mick Sever is heading off on vacation to relax after his latest book tour. Mick is a writer who knows the music world well and first hand. And he writes about it like a true visionary. His vacation is quickly interrupted, in truth before it begins. His childhood friend Nick Shapply has been arrested for murdering his step father. Senator Robert Sahppley had a lot of people who would like him dead but Mick is pretty sure Nick wasn’t the one to do it. So with a deal for a story of the case Mick sets to finding out what is going on and who did what. His ex wife meets him in DC to help with the writing.
This is a wonderful book and full of some very great moments. It reads smooth and easy, almost like good music playing on a summer afternoon. I would recommend to any fan of the mystery genre.
Jon Jordan - Crime Spree Magazine - RAM
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