Stars: 3 / 5
Recommendation: Thoroughly enjoyed although the romance between the protagonists’ daughter Christina and her new found carpenter Jake. It is short lived, although she is engaged to someone else who unbeknownst to her is trying to murder her. A good light read.
Almost Heaven is the fourth in The Other Side Anthology in November of 2010 by Ruth Ryan Langan. Nora published her novella with four of her recurring authors – Mary Blayney, Patricia Gaffney, Ruth Ryan Langan and Mary Kay McComas.
In this tale of less than 100 pages, Ruth Ryan Langan takes us to the Other Side when our protagonists – Ted and Vanessa Crenshaw – who are murdered by their soon to be son-in-law. They have to work from the other side to save their daughter from marrying a bad man.
In the anthology book The Lost, 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. But she came back in this book, which means J.D. Robb had to make the anthology series a five author one, since she introduced Patricia Gaffney in the previous book.
A murder mystery that I am sure would have been a larger book if the author made it a stand-alone by itself. Left a lot more one can see that the author could spin her tale. She made a good job of it as an anthology novel.
Thoroughly enjoyed although the romance between the protagonists’ daughter Christina and her new found carpenter Jake. It is short lived, although she is engaged to someone else who unbeknownst to her is trying to murder her. A good light read.
Spoiler Alerts:
- Grammatical / Character / Plot / Geographical / Historical / Mythological Errors:
- On Pg. 287, Line 10 from bottom, it should be “Jake” instead of “Mark” in the statement here.
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