Hunter's Moon

Hunter's Moon was the 14th book in the Doc Ford novels written by Randy Wayne White, a local Southwest Florida author. I've always been drawn his books because they are mystery novels with a familiar local setting. Instead of reading about some far away exotic location or imaginary place, it is amusing to read about places I grew up around.

In this novel, Doc Ford saves a former United States president from assassination on one of the local private islands. He then springs the former president loose from his security team and travels with him to South America to prove the president's wife was murdered by an arsonist instead of killed in a plane crash as reported. Adventure and suspense follow the two of them from Southwest Florida to the Florida Keys to South America and back to the States.

I enjoyed the story - the mystery and suspense. However, like many other secular novels - including previous Doc novels - I found the foul language, sparse as it was, distracting and unnecessary.

CIRCLE OF HONOR

Circle of Honor is book one in the The Scottish Crown Series by Carol Umberger. Since romance is way outside of my genre preferences of mystery, suspense and supernatural thriller, you may be wondering why I chose to read this one. Simple. Carol is my mentor in the Christian Writers Guild Journeyman course so naturally I wanted to read her books.

This book is about faith, family, and love in fourteenth-century Scotland. It takes you back to a time when Scotland was in the mist of fighting for independence from England. Gwenyth and Adam - enemies by family association - are thrown together by unfortunate circumstances.

Gwenyth is torn from her family and then assaulted and forced to make a false accusation against her enemy, Adam. She struggles with her faith in God, her desire for revenge, and her feelings for Adam while living out her sentence of one year of marriage to Adam. At the same time, he struggles with guilt over his handicap, fear of dishonoring his family, and a desire to have a real marriage with Gwenyth.

The book draws you into their lives and the choices they are forced to make. The characters and the journey of unexpected twists and turns kept me turning the pages until the very end. I'm looking forward to reading book two.