Review: Stronger than ever, Close to Home is and awesome read.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 8, 2012
Emotion packed suspense pushes this forth novel in the Savannah Martin Mystery Series to a an even high level than the previous books in the series. For the most part the story moves away from real estate and more into Savannah's personal life. While Savannah works to track down the boy in the picture who looks a lot like Rafe, from Contract Pending, mystery and tragedy strike even closer to home in this story.  Because she has personal ties to both situations, Savannah pushes harder than usual to resolve the mysteries. Bit by bit, the whole family learns about Savannah's relationship with Rafe. While Rafe makes a pivotal visit, he is not available to support Savannah through most of her trying times.Dix plays an even greater role in this book than the last one.  I see definite opportunities for "Tammy's" role to expand so it will be interesting to see what happens there.  After the last book, I had wondered if there was a chance for a romance between the detective and Todd because she is a strong enough woman that he would not be able to suffocate her the way Savannah feels she is being suffocated.  That possibility still exists but now I am looking for her role to expand in another direction in the long run.  I like to see that she is a good person and a good cop.There are a couple of times that I really want to have a chat with that girl but the fact in that she acts and feels based on her life, not my mine.  These are people that I have come to care about; a good author makes the characters real enough for us to care about even if it mean we get irritated with them.  J. Bennett make her characters matter.