Julia Spencer-Fleming has never disappointed me. She always writes tightly plotted, high stakes novels like this one. I wondered how she would proceed now that Clare and Russ are legally married, but I should have known that wouldn't prevent roadblocks in their relationship.
Clare and Russ are attempting a delayed honeymoon in a remote cabin on a frozen lake when the worst ice storm in history strikes, a little girl is kidnapped, and all hell breaks loose in Miller's Kill. The newlyweds are both holding back information that each wants to protect the other from. And now they are out of phone coverage range, facing some extreme complications.
Russ has a distressing tendency to forget that his wife is a trained military badass who can take care of herself, just as she did in the very first book. It's a cross that we women of a certain age have to deal with in the men of our vintage. They have these old fashioned notions about women's role in their lives and their condescension is frustrating as all get out. Russ manages better than most at pulling his head out of his ass, eventually.
The sad part was the Kevin and Hadley story line. Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory. So many reasons to keep on reading!
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