Camino Winds by John Grisham
Book review
Rating- 4/5 as a stand alone 3/5 as a sequel
Genre- Fiction whodunit!
Spoilers- None about Camino winds but if you have not read Camino Islands then a summary is first given which pretty much spoils that Novel!
If you have read Camino Island then you would know the characters in the novel! Camino Island was a great novel now for a budding Novel writer and that was the premise. The lead character Bruce was a know it all when it comes to writing a novel and how to make it popular!
How to market the novel and how to go about promoting it! He had even given some insights on rare but interesting topics to write a novel! That Novel had Merkel as the lead female protagonist and she was a budding novelist with one good book in search for another with mounting debts who is ‘enlisted’ by an agency to get close to Bruce and find out about a rare manuscript! Long story short Bruce outwits the whole agency and gets the money and is now the lead of this story! It’s like how Sidney Sheldon introduced that famous lawyer in “another side of midnight” and made a sequel putting many other characters in the lead!
So after getting that background lets move into this island which is over run by a big storm called Leo! The way Grisham describes Leo is simply the best! That kept me hooked to an ebook after a long time since I have moved on to audio books with full gusto!
The premise is that one of the Novelist who had written some good racy thrillers is found dead in the eye of the storm with a head injury under suspicious circumstances! Bruce and his friends minus all the gals of his book club then being the only few remaining residents of the storm raged island then investigate the whole death!
The way they stumble upon one clue to another is real good though it reminded me of a hardy Boys mystery! The way they survived the storm reminded me of how we spent our time indoor during COVID and the dark episodes of Walking dead!
The chief issue discussed in the book is finally how people especially those who suffer from dementia are treated in old age home which is a big business and in true Grisham style they try to find out the facts mentioned in the last novel of this author which he leaves as a hidden manuscript for Bruce and his friends to understand. He also enlists the help in a reversal of sorts from Camino Island of the same group which tried to get him!
It is a good thing that John Grisham in his Gray Mountain or Rooster bar way did not end the novel in a depressing note and the last fifty pages were a thrill run and make up for the slow pace of the start! Just for the satisfying ending and the introduction of a young character with interesting sleuthing skills you can read the whole Novel! With just under 300 pages you can finish it in no time!
Enjoy the holidays!
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