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Tres Navarre and Maria have finally gotten married. She’s eight months pregnant, and they are going on their honeymoon. Garrett has convinced his brother to go back to a place from their childhood: Rebel Island. Tres isn’t delighted but Garrett persuades him. They arrive at the beginning of a hurricane. This is just what every pregnant woman dreams of – a ferry ride into a major storm. When they get to Rebel Island, the hotel begins to fall apart around them. It hasn’t been maintained as well as it should have, and the storm is tearing it apart. There are other guests. An old lawman. Some college kids. The live-in help. A woman running from her past. The current owner, Alex Huff, and his assistant Chris. And a cop, a cop who knows Tres and doesn’t like him much. The first person to die is Jesse Longoria, the cop. Why is he killed? Is it because of the bomber he’s been chasing, a bomber who works for the drug cartel in Mexico? Does it have to do with the violent ex-husband? Or the drug smuggling that may or may not be going on? Or something altogether different? REBEL ISLAND is a locked room mystery, and a very good one at that. The hurricane makes the island even more isolated than usual, strips away communication with the outside world and distracts Tres from the case. So many motives, so many back-stories, so much history all caught up in this one hotel. Riordan is very good at giving enough of Navarre’s past so that the reader can work the puzzle, and yet leaving enough out so that one wants to find out the rest. Riordan is also adept at diverting the reader’s attention from the important facts with information that seems important, and is important, but still is not where one needs to be focusing in order to solve the crime(s). If the rest of the Navarre series is as good as REBEL ISLAND, Riordan is an author well worth reading.
Reviewed by P. J. Coldren, September 2007
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