While I was disappointed in Camino Island, I am liking Camino Winds a bit better. Where the first in the series dissolved into a convoluted plot I didn't even want to follow, Camino Winds is more clearcut. Still, it's not the legal thriller I've come to love from John Grisham.
Bruce, the owner of Bay Books, and his friends stay on the island after the governor orders everyone to leave because of Hurricane Leo. In the aftermath, Bruce and his friends find an author friend dead in the backyard of his property. At first it appears that Nelson Kerr was at some folly being outside in a hurricane but with his dog missing, the group thinks perhaps he was only trying to find his dog. A bit of investigating leads the group to think that this wasn't an accident but a murder.
Kerr blew the whistle on a client some years ago and found himself without his lawyer job but $5 million richer thanks to the governent. A costly divorce decimated the millions, but Kerr found a second act as an author and was making enough to sustain life in a million dollar condo on Camino Island. His fifth novel finished but secured with encryption in his computer -- could it be the reason for murder? Working with the authorities -- which is unrealistic -- Bruce and company try to unravel the mystery.
I have loved John Grisham since A Time To Kill. I look forward to his return to legal thrillers.
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