A review by ljjohnson8
Plum Island by Nelson DeMille

4.0

Maybe I shouldn't have liked this book as much as I did: after all, I'm not a man. Even though DeMille has a ton of titles, this was my first run at him and I enjoyed myself. John Corey is an NYPD detective recovering from a gunshot wound at his uncle's beach house on Long Island's north shore (an area I'm very familiar with, which added to my enjoyment). John is a bit of a beer-swilling ladies man and the sexism was a little too pronounced, but it was well-countered by humor, self-aware sarcasm, some real emotion, and a good story. Probably overlong, but I appreciated the slow unravelling of the mystery rather than the usual (and unbelievable) lightning-quick brilliance of heroes in other books of this type. A solid, action/mystery with a faulty but very likable main character; I will happily read more John Corey.