Saturday, August 21, 2021

Tess Gerritsen

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“If Nina Cormier’s wedding had taken place, she would be dead. But after the bride was left at the altar, the church stood empty when the bomb exploded. It wasn’t until a stranger tried to run her off the road that Nina realized someone actually wanted to kill her.

But who?

That’s what Detective Sam Navarro has to find out … fast. With a nightmare all around them, Sam and Nina must try to decipher the terrifying truth: they are at the mercy of a brilliant madman, one who is playing for keeps …"

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I was planning to go somewhere by train. I’ve been stayed home for almost three months after the Covid crisis in May. But I decided, again not to go out due to the weather. So, I stayed home to finish this book.

I have finished all the Rizzoli & Isles series, up to the latest I Knew A Secret. So I think it’s time I can focus on Gerritsen’s standalone books. And this was not the first standalone book of her I’ve read, either.

If you ask me what category I think this book falls into, I’ll say it’s more a romance than a detective novel. Not very impressive. It’s a romance novel, so you could guess that the bride and the detective eventually would have a happy life ever after. The person, whose crimes brought Nina and Sam together, was a bomber. So you could know there would be a bomb in the end to threaten their lives. And it would definitely be at the last second, not minute, when the bomb was disarmed. Such a cliche.