Blow Out by Catherine Coulter

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Secrets, surprises, and suspense are the hallmarks of the novels in Catharine Coulter's bestselling series of contemporary FBI thrillers. That has been true ever since The Cove came out in 1996, with its chilling story of a woman on the run and the FBI agent who saved her.

Coulter's Blowout heralds the return of handsome, perceptive Detective Ben Raven (from Blindside) of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., working again with the ever-popular FBI couple, Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich. Raven is less than pleased when his federal agent friends ask him to team up with investigative reporter Callie Markham in their new case involving the brutal murder of a Supreme Court justice who happens to be Callie's stepfather. And it soon becomes clear that the crafty killer isn't about to stop at one victim, no matter how highly placed.
With the press keeping a spotlight on the growing peril in the nation's capital, Savich must also come to grips with a more elusive case he came upon by chance. Following a minor traffic accident while on vacation in the Poconos, Savich encountered a desperate young woman who pleaded for his help and led him to the scene of a violent crime only to disappear. When Savich goes to the local authorities, he's told that everything he "witnessed" took place almost 30 years earlier -- a revelation supported by evidence (or lack of it) when he returns to the scene and finds that the elegant house he'd searched before was now a ramshackle shell. But that doesn't mean Savich can forget the fear that haunted the woman who came to him for help or change her need for justice.

So Coulter's been walking the line with adding a supernatural element to this series for a bit now. Up until now she was just dancing on the line, but this book she stepped on over. I've got nothing against some "other" elements going on in books, I'm cool with it.
This book took a little bit to get moving. I liked Callie and I'm glad that Ben got his own book. I was pretty happy that Sherlock got to be the lead in this. Savich is usually the one who is the brains behind everything, but this time Sherlock was the one that was on top of things this time.
The whole scene with Samantha and Austin was a little bit out there. Not so much out there as in too much supernatural, just out there as in not really in the storyline. It didn't mesh at all with the bigger story.
I'm thinking that the whole thing with Callie's mom is going to come back. It just didn't wrap up like most things Coulter does. There wasn't a neat little bow. I also didn't like how the bad guy picked his victims. That seemed just a little too easy. Maybe those two things will come back around at some point.
This book lacked some of the suspense and excitment of some of the others.
I didn't not like it, but I do hope that the next one's a bit better.