Shadow Creek ,my Book of the Week

Shadow Creek by Joy Fielding

This was the book I worked on last week. I have read many by this author and she is easy to read and usually writes a good interesting mystery novel with well thought out characters.

This one was disappointing . It had just too many “unbelievable s “ in it.

It is a horrendous slaughter of 2 sets of elderly people in their cottages in the Adirondacks. By a couple of crazed serial killers. This part is laced with gore and sex.

Into this scene at Shadow Creek comes a very dysfunctional set of people, a mother( wife soon to be divorced) her out of control 16 year old daughter, the husband's fiance (soon to be married) and 2 peculiar friends of the mother, a fashionista and a homosexual dandy. 

All are waiting for the husband to arrive so they can have a nice weekend at the lodge. The husband never gets there; he is too busy with his work which turns out to be a girl friend of his daughter. The daughter keeps taking off into the forest to meet a boyfriend and her mother goes frantic trying to keep her in check meanwhile  casting nasty barbs at the fiance of her husband. They all get thrown out of the lodge but instead of heading home decide to camp.

Then all of the characters , the goodies and the baddies, get mixed up together and you keep thinking to yourself ” well that was really stupid”.

I did get to the end of the book as I knew it would end okay but given all the peculiarities of the plot it did make me wonder just how it managed it.

Not a book I would recommend.