Almost finished reading J.A. Jance's mystery series starring Sheriff Joanna Brady. Reading a series back -to-back gets boring. Writers have to catch up readers about recurring characters or events that happened in previous novels because readers may not have read them. It gets like, yeah, yeah, I know her husband Andy died and her father was killed by a drunk driver and so on.
I pretty much like the series, easy reading; Jance uses prologues which I generally do not like, but it sets the stage or hooks readers wanting to know more. Yet it seems the novels have two many stories going on at the same time. Two unrelated murders or two mysteries to solve in Paradise Lost.
What irked me about Paradise Lost is that the sister of a murdered woman disappeared from the story never to be heard from again after playing a big role at the onset of the story. No notifying sis that they found out who done it. Nor was the murdered woman's husband notified. I guess those things are understood. Yet it was almost like the corpse disappeared as the story veered off on the second murder and pursuit of both killers. Yet to me it did not tie up the loose ends.
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