Stars: 3 / 5
Recommendation: It was short, sweet, packed full of pathos, humor, loss and redemption; but thoroughly managed to confuse me.
Missing in Death is the seventh 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 The Lost anthology book in November of 2009 in which Nora published her novella with two of her recurring authors and we see a new author too – Patricia Gaffney, Mary Blayney and Ruth Ryan Langan. This was subsequently released along with other in death novellas as anthology books several times. We continue to pursue Lieutenant Eve Dallas juggling her role as a Homicide Lieutenant and also being a wife to the Irish Billionaire Roarke
The second novella is by Patricia Gaffney titled The Dog Days of Laurie Summer. In this anthology book we see that Robb’s regular anthology author Mary Kay McComas is clearly absent and missing for the book. No writeup was given why she is missing in the book. I wonder what happened although she is a good friend of Nora Roberts.
This book confused me a lot but it was a tear-jerker and wrung my heart out. The protagonist Laurie Summer spends most of the time in coma, while her sprit goes into a dog called Sonoma to stay near her family.
However I got confused on the way. In the beginning I thought our heroine reincarnated as a dog. But, at the end of the story she is brought to life, but the dog also lives? Did her spirit merge with the dog or did she reincarnate?
It was short, sweet, packed full of pathos, humor, loss and redemption; but thoroughly managed to confuse me. Incidentally I while I was reading this book, my friend bought a dog home. A surprise to her son and husband for Father’s Day. The son takes care of it as of now. However, I am happy for my friend very much as they welcome their furry friend, Bruno, home.
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