Book Review : The Summer Guest

 

From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen comes a chilling follow-up to The Spy Coast, plunging the Martini Club into the search for a missing teen—with a startling connection to their own pasts.

When former spy Maggie Bird retired to the seaside hamlet of Purity, Maine, she settled in for a quiet life with breathtaking views. But enemies from her past soon threatened to destroy everything.

Maggie survived, thanks to her wits and the collective intelligence of the Martini Club, the circle of ex-CIA friends in her cocktail-sipping book club. Their handiwork, however, caught the attention of young police chief Jo Thibodeau. Now Jo and her neighborhood ex-spies have an uneasy alliance.

After a teenager vanishes—and Maggie’s neighbor becomes the prime suspect—she joins the investigation, determined to prove her friend’s innocence. But the girl’s wealthy family pushes for an arrest. And when authorities discover a long-dead corpse in a nearby pond, the case becomes doubly complicated, with unthinkable ties to long-buried secrets.

As Jo grapples with two unexplained mysteries, the Martini Club races to uncover the truth behind shadowy secrets…before more lives are lost.

KU Reads 

An interesting read, with characters retired from the CIA, who get together as the martini Club, to catch up as they drink martinis and do a pot luck. They live in a small Maine town, and volunteered to help the young, female Chief of Police, solve e complicated crime. There were lots of twists, which kept the pages turning. There was one thing that grabbed my attention. In chapter forty three, the author (who in real life is a physician), mentioned a "medicine nurse in a hospital pushing the medicine cart down the hall". As a retired nurse, I know that this form of nursing is not used any more in hospitals.. The practice now is for " total patient care" in which the nurse gives her (or his) patients their medications, as well as any necessary treatments. Practice used to be, for instance, the medication nurse gave a patient pain medication and possibly didn't tell the pts. care nurse. All of a sudden the patient is sweating and has hives. Not knowing immediately about the pain medication, the care nurse is at a loss to figure out what's wrong with the patient. Tess is an excellent writer and able to put you at the scene with her words. Another good one.