Review: More to This Book Than Meets the Eye
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 28, 2012
The backdrop for this thriller is the California real estate market, a drama in itself! When heroine Madison Boone outfoxes an unscrupulous buyer, and herself snags the old house that's been lying dormant ever since its owners died a few years ago, she stirs up a real hornet's nest.I enjoyed hearing the lingo of real estate brokers and house renovators. Madison is herself a broker, and her best friends are a lawyer and a television actress. These women spend a lot of time together and we become privy to their banter and their innermost secrets in this book. The dialogue moves along crisply, and the writing in this book overall is clean and elegant.You know from the reaction of the jilted buyer that there's something special about that house. While Madison and her friends start the renovation work, and at the same time search for clues that would reveal the hidden value of the house, Madison has a series of troubling and dangerous encounters on the property. I found myself trying to sort out whether each new character was going to turn out to be friend or foe in the end. And still everything was a surprise, which shows how lousy I am at following clues.I also greatly enjoyed the bird motif in Mark of the Loon. I do not want to spoil anything for anyone, so maybe I should just mention that there is much more to this book than meets the eye.