Leafing Through Pages – Cold Case

Stars: 3 / 5

Recommendation: Short novella and could be a book of its own, or a series if Ruth expands it. It was an adventure to read thru it.

Ritual in Death is the sixth novella in the long running In Death Series by J. D. Robb, the alter ego of the famous American romance novelist Nora Roberts. This was originally published in Suite 606 anthology book in November of 2008 in which Nora published her novella with three of her recurring authors – Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan and Mary Kay McComas.

The third novella is Cold Case by Ruth Ryan Langan. This tale takes us thru a lost man named Sam Hunter who is thrown into the arms a welcoming woman on a cold night but gives an excited twist at the end.

It was a very short novella of less than 100 pages that went thru the lives of Sam Hunter, Mary Catherine McGiven and how their lives inter twine. There are sub-plots which could become and series of their own if Ruth ever tried to write a series.

In a surprise twist when Sam Hunter is brought back to present time, his two or three days with Catherine seems so long ago, and when he lands into the arms of Kate McGiven, he realizes he was a witness to a past and that pushes him to a purpose. That leads him to find his job again. But romance between Kate and Sam doesn’t happen. It ends with him finding his purpose.

We see Suite 606 mentioned towards the end of the book, but we come across it none the less. If only she could have written a series we would have seen the romance buikd up between Kate ad Sam, but none the less a good adventure to read thru it.