white hot

white hot
by Sandra Brown

Sandra Brown has written 6 million books. OK, that is an exaggeration. Slightly. I know I've read several of hers before -- usually a little bit of romance, some mystery, perhaps some crazy family dynamics, and takes place in the south. This book is no different.

It was a nice, easy read that had all the requisite parts of a Sandra Brown novel. Daughter hates family, and has left to make a new life for herself, vowing never to return. However, her younger brother commits suicide and so, reluctantly, she comes home. She hates the town, her dad and the business he runs that runs the town, her older brother and his disregard for everyone except himself, and their new, slick lawyer (even though he's hot). She's only going to stay for the funeral, then head back to her real life. But the lawyer gets her to stay -- for a night -- by telling her that maybe the suicide was murder.

Of course, she stays longer to figure that out. And encounters lots of other issues she thought she'd left behind.

This book was no earth-shattering novel, but it's a good summer read.

©2004, Simon & Schuster
ISBN 0-7432-4553-9