Northern Lights

Book review by Joel
I got this book from a friend of mine who likes romance novels. She said this one was different. Not the usual soft porn romance novel but a mystery- with soft porn undertones. So I wrapped myself in corn husks and tried to tip toe to the tulips and…

I was pleasantly surprised by this book. The jacket says she has 250 million books in print. She must use a word processor. This is a story of a cop whose partner was shot to death in Baltimore while he couldn’t help because he was shot as well. Then he empties his clip in the perp, gets divorced from his wife or vise versa, and he decides to move to Lunacy, Alaska.

The town is full of characters. Some one dimensional, some comic relief, almost all suspects in a gruesome murder some 16 years back that was discovered by some climbers in the mountains. Ignatious, or Nate, is selected as new town police chief, which he takes very seriously, and in the first few pages two women are already lusting after him. He picks Meg to woo and eventually ----- uh ….

Then all hell breaks loose and a body is discovered in the mountains. Then the town newsman commits suicide- or was it murder?- and we find out that everyone is a suspect. Even the moose has an evil look in his eye. Who could have done such a terrible thing?

While most of the characters in this book are superficial and stupid, Nora does a good job of developing the two main characters of Nate and Meg. They copulate and persevere. I don’t want to give away the ending, but it was sort of anticlimactic.

Even so, it was a good bathroom read.