Monday, June 13, 2011

Hemlock Bay by Catherine Coulter


From Barnes and Noble:
"FBI agents Dillon Savich and his wife, Lacey Sherlock, are in the middle of a frightening case involving two psychopathic killers and a series of ghoulish kidnappings, when trouble hits on the home front. Dillon's younger sister, Lily, has been injured after crashing her sports utility vehicle into a giant redwood tree and, if Dillon is to believe Lily's father-in-law, the crash was no accident. But was it another suicide attempt, the second since Lily's daughter was killed by a hit-and-run driver just seven months ago? Convinced that fast answers could save Lily's life, Dillon and Lacey race to California's Hemlock Bay, and what they find proves shocking even to them.
Unbeknownst to Lily, her latest "accident" is part of a twisted plot to steal from her eight valuable paintings bequeathed to Lily by her famous grandmother, artist Sarah Elliott. When Lily leaves Hemlock Bay, taking the paintings with her, it doesn't take long for art broker Simon Russo to spot four of the paintings as forgeries. So where are the originals?
That's what Lily and Simon are determined to find out, following clues that will take them from prestigious Washington, D.C. galleries to New York, back to Hemlock Bay, and across the globe to Switzerland, where a notorious collector holds the secret to the missing paintings -- and Lily and Simon's fates -- in his hands. And this time, they're on their own, as Dillon and Lacey are called back into action to catch a killer whose terrifying powers exceed anything the FBI agents have ever encountered anywhere in this world."
So it was great to meet someone from Savich's life. We have met plenty of his friend, but not really his family. I liked Lily, I liked Simon alot. The fact that Savich's friend ends up with his sister.
I love that we have a book in this series that neither one of the main characters were cops. Simon is an ex-cop, but for the duration of this book he's not a cop.
I love who the "bad guys" ended up being. Although I felt bad for Tennyson.
I loved how she wrapped up the Tuttle fiasco. I really thought it was awesome how Lily played into that.
I was fairly pleased with how Coulter grasped depression and Lily's "attempts" at suicide.
The international ploy going on here, I didn't particularly care for...but somebody had to be behind it all.
I liked it, although it hasn't been my favorite to date. I give it a 2 out of 5.

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