The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are levelled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people are killed. Amongst them is Bruce Cable, proprietor of Bay Books in downtown Santa Rosa. Most residents flee but a small group of diehards decide to ride it out. When Hurricane Leo threatens Florida’s Camino Island, the Governor is quick to issue an evacuation order.
Is a Perfect Storm the Perfect Time for a Murder? Watch out or you will be pulling another all-nighter.The Sunday Times bestseller from international bestseller John Grisham. We were right, sure enough there is a connection and it makes for another edge-of-your-seat story, even with a little edge of menace. At first no one except the reader of Camino Winds thinks there is a connection between the manuscript and Nelson’s untimely demise. Nelson is an author who has just finished a new book, although he has not yet sent it to a publisher. At first they think he was hit by flying debris, but young Nick, lover of mystery books, offers good reasons to believe this is actually a murder. When they go to check on him they find him folded over a stone wall in his back yard, dead. But one of Cable’s writer friends fares far worse in the storm. And indeed, the electricity does get taken out by the storm. The storm is a doozey and there is plenty of damage but it is to the north of where Cable lives, closer to the big hotels. Nick, a young student working part time in the bookstore hangs with Bruce through the storm and the aftermath. Bruce moves all his first floor books to the upper floors in the bookstore and decides to stay put in his Victorian home, beautifully decorated by his wife Noelle, an antiques dealer.
Mercer’s grandmother’s cottage may not be able to survive a direct hit by such a strong storm. Mercer is with her new beau Thomas, also a writer, but they have to evacuate the island before the book signing can ever take place. His bookstore is a popular stop on publishers’ marketing circuits. The island has attracted a small, oddball group of writers who enjoy each other’s company and are happy to be strong-armed into attending the book signings Cable sponsors.
Bruce Cable is an enthusiastic fan of Mercer and he is an enthusiastic fan of all novelists, although he likes literary fiction best. John Grisham takes us to revisit Bruce Cable at his very popular bookstore when Mercer Mann is scheduled to do a reading and book signing for her new novel, named Tessa after her grandmother. Camino Winds takes us back to Camino Island just in time to greet a direct hit by a Category 4-5 hurricane named Leo.
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