Review: The Summer Guests

The Summer Guests by Tess Gerritsen
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The second book of The Martini Club is more local and personal for its cast of characters. Largely shifting away from the international intrigue of The Spy Coast, as well as its contrast between present day winter and past flashbacks to sunny Malta, this one takes place almost entirely in the present day, except for a brief 1972 flashback. Instead of the international intrigue, it's a smaller scope story, centered on a missing teenage girl from a wealthy family, with parallels to a past case and past infamous CIA stories. Though the latter part of the book shifts oddly and incongruously into conspiracy theory territory, Gerritsen still handles the story and characters with her usual aplomb. And, if you're good enough to read all the way to the end (at least in the physical version I picked up at the library; can't speak for other formats in this regard), you'll be rewarded with a bonus short story officially crossing over with the world of Jack Reacher.

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