Sometime’s a book’s so good I have to tell people about it. I’ve long been meaning to read NYT Bestselling author P.J. Parrish, but I’m ashamed to say I hadn’t gotten around to it until now. I just read the most recent book in the series, AN UNQUIET GRAVE. I loved every minute of it. If you’ve read my screed on revisions, you know that a good story requires a main character who acts as the reader’s touchstone. The character is someone you’re willing to follow anywhere. Louis Kincaid, a former cop and now a P.I. based in Florida, is that kind of character. Having been a cop, he’s naturally wary of peoples’ motives, but P.J. Parrish threads the needle. Kincaid’s got a wonderful soul.
Teaser: an isolated insane asylum from early in the last century is about to go under the bulldozers—as creepy a place as you could imagine.
I loved the strange twists and turns in this darkly atmospheric novel; I didn’t know from page to page where it would lead. I was sad when I got to the last page because I didn’t want to leave.
You want that in a writer.
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