Review: When the past collides with the present
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2014
This is the third book I've read by this author and each time I am surprised by his choice of subject and his writing style. The novel starts with a collision and like all challenges presented to us in life, have the tendency to propel us in new directions, ones we would not have considered had we stayed put doing the same old, same old. When Lane gets a new job on an island off the Californian coast, it takes him and us into a strange world of mysterious deaths and happenings which seems to corroborate the local legends of island hauntings and a history of native, Hispanic and European inhabitants that succeeded each other in some peaceful but mostly violent encounters. Even though Lane has always been a rational-minded man, strange events that happen to him personally cause him to consider realities outside his ken and he even seeks out the wisdom of a local shaman in order to help him solve the puzzle. When he does, it changes him and the story and all for the better!