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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8979678" data-attributes="member: 508">I'm back from my week-long business trip, and I finished up Shadow of the Knife - it was really good.&nbsp; I'll have to keep Kenneth R. McKay on my radar; he's earned an automatic read of any book of his I might discover.&nbsp; And here's an odd thing I noticed about this book: his name doesn't appear anywhere on the cover, and only his last name shows up on the spine.&nbsp; He's either very unconcerned about getting his name out there, or he was new enough he didn't know to fight the publisher to get his name on the cover.&nbsp; In any case, I was impressed with the book.The second book I read and finished was Red Rain by R. L. Stine - yes, the very same author behind the &quot;Goosebumps&quot; series of horror stories for kids, although this one was definitely written for an adult audience.&nbsp; The basic story is a woman rescues two twins on an island off South Carolina that's flattened by a hurricane and takes them home to her family, where she wants them to blend in.&nbsp; But there's something very evil about the kids, who exhibit some interesting power along the lines of mental domination and pyrokinesis.&nbsp; I figured out the plot twist about the two kids fairly early on, but missed another &quot;obvious in hind sight&quot; twist, and then it ended in a very Stephen King manner.&nbsp; I would recommend this book as well.The third book is Cold Truth by Mariah Stewart, and I specifically saved that one for today's airport wait and plane trip.&nbsp; I gave myself a scare when I first started it, for the author has won a bunch of &quot;romantic novel&quot; awards and I feared I had picked up a romance novel by mistake (that was to be my only source of entertainment for the whole trip back home), but I'm over a hundred pages into it and not a romantic plot to be found.&nbsp; Phew!&nbsp; It is, as described on the back cover, a novel about a serial killer starting back up his string of deaths in his hometown after a 26-year absence, and the people trying to find him and put a stop to his death spree: a detective in the small town where the killings have started back up again, and the daughter of a recently-slain &quot;true crime&quot; author who had some valuable notes about the killer that might bring some insight into who he is.&nbsp; And now, about 100 pages in, there's also an FBI agent being sent to meet with the author's daughter, so he might be brought into the fold as well.&nbsp; And who knows, there might even be some sort of romantic plotline between him and the female detective, but so far the novel has been engaging so I'd still want to see it to its conclusion.&nbsp; (Although my eyeballs got tired on the plane and I ended up napping instead of continuing on with the story.)Johnathan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richards, post: 8979678, member: 508"] I'm back from my week-long business trip, and I finished up [i]Shadow of the Knife[/i] - it was really good. I'll have to keep Kenneth R. McKay on my radar; he's earned an automatic read of any book of his I might discover. And here's an odd thing I noticed about this book: his name doesn't appear anywhere on the cover, and only his last name shows up on the spine. He's either very unconcerned about getting his name out there, or he was new enough he didn't know to fight the publisher to get his name on the cover. In any case, I was impressed with the book. The second book I read and finished was [i]Red Rain[/i] by R. L. Stine - yes, the very same author behind the "Goosebumps" series of horror stories for kids, although this one was definitely written for an adult audience. The basic story is a woman rescues two twins on an island off South Carolina that's flattened by a hurricane and takes them home to her family, where she wants them to blend in. But there's something very evil about the kids, who exhibit some interesting power along the lines of mental domination and pyrokinesis. I figured out the plot twist about the two kids fairly early on, but missed another "obvious in hind sight" twist, and then it ended in a very Stephen King manner. I would recommend this book as well. The third book is [i]Cold Truth[/i] by Mariah Stewart, and I specifically saved that one for today's airport wait and plane trip. I gave myself a scare when I first started it, for the author has won a bunch of "romantic novel" awards and I feared I had picked up a romance novel by mistake (that was to be my only source of entertainment for the whole trip back home), but I'm over a hundred pages into it and not a romantic plot to be found. Phew! It is, as described on the back cover, a novel about a serial killer starting back up his string of deaths in his hometown after a 26-year absence, and the people trying to find him and put a stop to his death spree: a detective in the small town where the killings have started back up again, and the daughter of a recently-slain "true crime" author who had some valuable notes about the killer that might bring some insight into who he is. And now, about 100 pages in, there's also an FBI agent being sent to meet with the author's daughter, so he might be brought into the fold as well. And who knows, there might even be some sort of romantic plotline between him and the female detective, but so far the novel has been engaging so I'd still want to see it to its conclusion. (Although my eyeballs got tired on the plane and I ended up napping instead of continuing on with the story.) Johnathan [/QUOTE]

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