Vineyard Shadows

Sleuthing ex-cop J.W. Jackson finds that wife Zee has been forced to kill an intruder at their home. The dead perpetrator and his accomplice were actually looking for the husband of Jackson's first wife, so Jackson suffers from divided loyalties: should he help Zee through her trauma or save his first wife from impending pain? This series makes me want to live the life JW and Zee have. It is definetly another winner in Craig's "Martha's Vineyard" series.

I hesitate to add this to my inventory because this is the kind of book I really don't like reading. I haven't added any books I don't like for fear I'll get automatic recommendations for more books I won't like. It's not bad, it's just too reminiscent of that old TV show "Murder She Wrote" or even a Lifetime movie; banal and predictable. At the beginning I worried it was classified as a Young Adult book. I finished it and within 24 hours could not even remember the title.
I've read enough reviews to know other readers will really like this kind of story and will be unhappy with my negative comments. Chances are there is a good number of people who like Lifetime movies. But I've relied on high ratings in Library Thing, only to be later show more stunned at how much I didn't like the same book. So, I guess I'll now start using the ratings from those who don't like the same book... show less