Veena’s review of Backwater Justice (The Sisterhood, Book 36) by Fern Michaels
Romantic Suspense published by Zebra Books 24 Dec 24
I am a huge fan, but I got bored with the Sisterhood series a while back. I am, however, so glad to get back to them with this book. This is a well-paced suspense that will keep you guessing almost to the very end.
When Milton Spangler collapses after sipping from a glass of whisky on the cusp of raking his younger son over the coals, he decides to reach out to his old flame, Myra Rutledge, for help. Little does he know that Myra is well positioned to offer him more help than he dreamed. Soon Myra and some of her sisterhood show up in the small town of Mountain Valley, Oregon to find that more things are wrong than Milton even suspected.
Young women with no apparent connection to each other are missing. There is a potential that drugs are being milled and smuggled through the town, and since the Spanglers own the town, they are sacrosanct. As the sisterhood works to pull the clues, poor Milton is in for some very unpleasant surprises.
I thoroughly enjoyed the cast of characters and the story line and how it all came together. I guess I’ll be reading more Sisterhood books now as they come out.
Grade: A
Summary:
The small Oregon town of Mountain Valley seems like the perfect place to safely raise a family, away from the dangers of the big city. Vanessa’s parents think so, until the day their fourteen-year-old daughter doesn’t come home for dinner. They call her cell. Straight to voice mail. They call her friends. Nothing.
An attendant at the local gas station mentions seeing a girl fitting Vanessa’s description getting into a pick-up truck that he thinks belongs to one of the Spanglers. Everyone knows the Spanglers—the richest, most influential family for miles around.
Patriarch Milton Spangler offers a $50,000 reward, determined to quash any notion that his family might be involved. But as search parties fail to yield any clues, another young woman goes missing. Are these simply disillusioned runaways[CC1] ? Or does the Spangler family have something to hide?
Myra Rutledge has honed her instincts over scores of missions, and the news stories about missing young women set her internal alarms ringing, especially when it involved her old friend, Milton Spangler. . She shares her concerns with other women of the Sisterhood, and they agree to look into the goings-on in Mountain Valley. But a small town like this can have deep secrets, especially when one family holds so much power.
