Genre: Mystery
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My husband teases me about my weakness for shoes. I just can't resist a great looking pair of sandals, or loafers, or ballet slippers, or pumps, or... . I line them up by color, I try them on with each outfit, and nine times out of ten I end up wearing the comfortable old shoe that sits in the back and calls out to me. David Rosenfelt is my comfortable old shoe of authors. His characters are familiar, his settings are homey and his stories filled with excitement that is lightened by humor. Without Warning fits that category. His two main characters are Jake Robbins, small town police chief, and Katie Sanford, editor of the local paper. Can you get more familiar or homier than that? A storm causes the unearthing of a local time capsule that was meant to stay buried for fifty years. When the contents are examined, there are twelve tragedies predicted including the death of Jake's wife. Several of these tragedies have already occurred...all after the capsule had been buried. A serial killer is in their midst.
Jake and Katie had dated in high school but drifted apart. This is fiction, so naturally Katie's husband, Roger, is found guilty of the murder of Jake's wife and later dies while incarcerated. The predictions point to the probability of Roger's innocence.
Rosenfelt has a way of making us believe in the preposterous and feel smart while doing it. There isn't much humor in this book (he saves that for his wonderful Andy Carpenter series), but there is a bit of lightness even as we go through the tragedies.
I won't give away any more of the plot but will definitely recommend the book as one of my favorites this month. Like that old loafer I keep wearing, David Rosenfelt is the author I want in reaching distance when I am ready to settle down and be comfortable.
- Beverly
Publisher - Minotaur Books
Date of Publication - March 25, 2014
Jake and Katie had dated in high school but drifted apart. This is fiction, so naturally Katie's husband, Roger, is found guilty of the murder of Jake's wife and later dies while incarcerated. The predictions point to the probability of Roger's innocence.
Rosenfelt has a way of making us believe in the preposterous and feel smart while doing it. There isn't much humor in this book (he saves that for his wonderful Andy Carpenter series), but there is a bit of lightness even as we go through the tragedies.
I won't give away any more of the plot but will definitely recommend the book as one of my favorites this month. Like that old loafer I keep wearing, David Rosenfelt is the author I want in reaching distance when I am ready to settle down and be comfortable.
- Beverly
Publisher - Minotaur Books
Date of Publication - March 25, 2014
