I must be in the mood for reading.

This is the first book, but not the last, that I’ve read by Mariah Stewart. She was recommended to me while I was out and about the other day, when I struck up a conversation about books with someone I’d never met before. As we compared books and authors, she asked if I’d ever read anything by Stewart, and I had not, so my next library trip, I checked her out, pun intended.

Stewart writes a number of series where the characters go from book to book, so I look forward to reading the others in this particular group, though I haven’t got them in my possession yet.

This book concerns the unraveling of a murderer. Steven Madden was convicted, sentenced and later died for the murders of college girls he had had affairs with during his tenure as a professor. His daughter, already estranged from him at the time in many ways, accepts his guilt along with a multitude of emotions that go along with it. Years later while going home for the first time for the death of her step-mother, she receives letters in Madden’s personal effects that lead her to believe in his innocence (which he had proclaimed at the time.)

The characters are interesting and believable. There’s a bit of romance, more than a splash of fear (that turns out to be a pun too) and you know that all will turn out well in the end. It doesn’t feel contrived. There is a second plot that follows along with the first and I can tell where it is going in the next book.

I give it a 3.

Have you read it? Have you read any of her books?

Karin

Originally posted 2008-06-13 08:21:29.

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