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"A 2012 Global Ebook Awards finalist ... Ice on the Grapevine A Hunter Rayne Highway Mystery is a tense murder mystery featuring tough-minded ex-homicide detective turned eighteen-wheel truck driver Hunter Rayne. ... [It] is a riveting mystery that will keep the reader guessing to the very end." - Midwest Book Review
This is a well spun yarn, full of plot detail and credible human response. Whodunit addicts will not be disappointed. - The Book Review
On a warm July morning in L.A. County, a frozen corpse turns up at a highway brake check just south of the Grapevine Pass. Ex-homicide detective Hunter Rayne, who now drives an eighteen wheeler, is persuaded by his irascible dispatcher, Elspeth Watson, to help clear two fellow truck drivers who are arrested for the murder. His job is made more difficult by the fact that the suspects, a newlywed couple, won't speak up in their own defense.
The circumstantial evidence is strong, and a rookie detective from the L.A. County Sheriff's Department is eager to score a win. The investigation crosses the Canada-U.S. border when the victim is identified as a second rate musician from Vancouver, and it turns out there were more than a few desperate people happy to see him dead, including the accused couple. Hunter has to use all his investigative skills to uncover the truth.
Hunter’s ex-wife maintains that by taking to the highway Hunter is running away from his past, but he believes that the solitude of days on the road is helping him to heal from guilt over the failure of his marriage and the suicide of his best friend. Tangled relationships and multiple suspects emerge throughout the novel, as Hunter butts heads with more than one officer of the law to solve the crime.
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Ice on the Grapevine A Hunter Rayne Highway Mystery Book 2 eBook RE Donald
This book easily would have rated five stars except for a problem with editing. There are two branches or locations to the story and the book is written with NO indication of movement from one to the other. A skipped line between paragraphs would have allowed the reader to follow the location jumps better. I found myself pausing at these points to require the story line at the correct place.That said, the author has developed an entertaining mystery that leaves the reader wondering until the very end. I will definitely read the rest of the set.
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Ice on the Grapevine A Hunter Rayne Highway Mystery Book 2 eBook RE Donald Reviews
Great series of which I own the entire Hunter Rayne trilogy. Rather than blab on and on about it's merits I thought I'd just copy and paste an excerpt from my original review of book 1 "Slow Curve on the Coquihalla" which is where it all begins
'... where this one excelled was being an uncommonly good police procedural. Book was highly unusual in that the protagonist is a one-time 20 year veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police who puts down the badge and becomes an over the road truck driver (something I'd never remotely read of before) and author knows her stuff as you can't help but learn a lot about the transportation industry from this fine work. Best part I found about this book were the character descriptions as a third of the way in we get to know a Dan "Sorry" Sorrenson (ex-con & part-time trucking partner) whom I really liked for livening up the book, one of my favorite passages of his being ' "Your boyfriend'll be out in a minute, sugar...He's just fixin, his face." Glad I grabbed this one as well as the next two sequels as it did keep me entertained! '
Most definitely buy this book as I do recommend it and while you're at it don't forget to grab the short novella "White Liners" by same author as well since it was free last I looked. Very good series!
The theme could have worked but
Got confused wìth who was who as names similar and using both first and surnames made it confysing.
No design indication that scene was changing
Sexist statements eg needing a man to protect her
I love it when this happens a book I'd never heard of, an author unknown to me, but the minute I start reading, I'm hooked, from page one. Great book!
Looking back, I suppose I picked this book for the reference to the "grapevine", that steep and highly dangerous -- far worse when icy -- part of I-5 in Kern County leading into (or out of) greater Los Angeles. As a dreadful personal tidbit, a dear friend of mine did indeed lose control of his car one night when there was ice on the grapevine. His car rolled over and over, caught fire, and yes, he was killed. So I was thinking maybe this book was a story about something like that -- I mourn his loss every time I think of the grapevine, and when I have to drive over it, I'm exceedingly careful, in his memory. It's a treacherous stretch of road.
Well, that isn't what the book is about. Not really. In fact, "grapevine" is mentioned only a couple of times, but -- trust me -- I have no complaints. There is "ice" involved, though, as in a frozen-solid corpse.
In spite of that, many times while reading "Ice" I wondered to myself if maybe this book should just be considered a "novel" as compared to a mystery. Oh, there's a "mystery" alright -- a good one, one I didn't see coming at all, although there were plenty of clues. But it's a book with characters so well developed, so 'real', so believable, all of them having good points and bad -- just like regular humans -- that at times it seemed more like a character study than just detective fiction. (Don't get me wrong -- "detective fiction" is my favorite genre. It's just that this book offers that, but so much more.)
I won't repeat the plot outline for you, others have done that. I just want to say that this is a very worthy book, a great way to spend a few hours of your precious time, getting to know these folks -- and "Peaches", of course, a delightful little Pomeranian who graces ever page in which she appears. (For animal lovers like me, just know that Peaches is never in any personal peril. It's just that all the humans involved are.)
Great book -- I'll definitely be looking for more by R. E Donald. I might even learn something about the trucking industry -- who knows?
A pair of California policeman find a frozen body at an interstate truck brake test station, and the trail leads to a reefer trailer from a British Columbia meat packer. The load was transported by long haul trucking team Ray and Sharon Nillson through Watson Transportation, so when the couple find themselves under suspicion and then arrested for the murder, El Watson asks current Watson driver and ex-RCMP detective Hunter Rayne to help clear them of the charges.
This is the second installment in the Highway Mystery series and can be read as a stand alone book.
The mystery covers a lot of ground, both geographically and plot-wise and with a number of interesting, well developed characters on both sides of the border. There are subplots that tie into the crime and the victim, and plenty of clues for the solve-along reader. This is one complicated mystery with lots of dangerous confrontations, mistakes made, hidden pasts, and hidden motives coming into play.
This one kept me guessing all the way through until the reveal of the murderer.
Recommended.
This book easily would have rated five stars except for a problem with editing. There are two branches or locations to the story and the book is written with NO indication of movement from one to the other. A skipped line between paragraphs would have allowed the reader to follow the location jumps better. I found myself pausing at these points to require the story line at the correct place.
That said, the author has developed an entertaining mystery that leaves the reader wondering until the very end. I will definitely read the rest of the set.
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