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A review by melodytime
The Lost by Mary Blayney, J.D. Robb, Patricia Gaffney
3.0
The Lost is an anthology of four authors. I read it because it included one of my favorites, J.D. Robb. I usually try to read the other stories in the book in the hopes of discovering a new author I'd like to read.
In Missing in Death, J.D. Robb yet again shows you the scope of her inventiveness. Lieutenant Dallas is called to the Staten Island Ferry because a woman is missing. In her place in the ladies' washroom is enough blood to guarantee that someone is dead. With no windows or vents large enough to escape through, how did a murderer and a dead body disappear from a ship with 3,000 passengers?
I enjoyed Patricia Gaffney's The Dog Days of Laurie Summer and found it quite charming. Saved from drowning, Laurie is in a coma. But for some strange reason, she finds herself in another body—one with four legs and fur, and living with her husband and young son.
Mary Blaney's Lost in Paradise is the story of a young woman who travels to a Caribbean island to nurse its inhabitants for a year. But is that her real mission, or is she supposed to save the man in the old fort/castle from a centuries-old curse. I found this story to be quite insipid, and if it hadn't been a short novella, I would have put it down long before I finished it.
In Ruth Ryan Langan's Legacy, Aidan quit her job to care for her terminally ill mother. Now, her mother has died, she's overburdened in debt and has no job. When contacted by the attorney for a man in Ireland who believes she could be his long-lost granddaughter, Aidan has no choice but to travel there if only just to claim the money promised her for her trouble. This story had a good start to it, but I think it would have been better had it been a full-length novel. It ended way too quickly, and was just too pat.
In Missing in Death, J.D. Robb yet again shows you the scope of her inventiveness. Lieutenant Dallas is called to the Staten Island Ferry because a woman is missing. In her place in the ladies' washroom is enough blood to guarantee that someone is dead. With no windows or vents large enough to escape through, how did a murderer and a dead body disappear from a ship with 3,000 passengers?
I enjoyed Patricia Gaffney's The Dog Days of Laurie Summer and found it quite charming. Saved from drowning, Laurie is in a coma. But for some strange reason, she finds herself in another body—one with four legs and fur, and living with her husband and young son.
Mary Blaney's Lost in Paradise is the story of a young woman who travels to a Caribbean island to nurse its inhabitants for a year. But is that her real mission, or is she supposed to save the man in the old fort/castle from a centuries-old curse. I found this story to be quite insipid, and if it hadn't been a short novella, I would have put it down long before I finished it.
In Ruth Ryan Langan's Legacy, Aidan quit her job to care for her terminally ill mother. Now, her mother has died, she's overburdened in debt and has no job. When contacted by the attorney for a man in Ireland who believes she could be his long-lost granddaughter, Aidan has no choice but to travel there if only just to claim the money promised her for her trouble. This story had a good start to it, but I think it would have been better had it been a full-length novel. It ended way too quickly, and was just too pat.