Book Review: Dark Summer by Iris Johansen
(blogcritics.org, Nov. 18, 2008, Katie Tally)
In Dark Summer Johansen introduces us to Devon Brady, a veterinarian who is characterized by her love for animals and her desire to help others. She is on a disaster relief mission on an island in the Caribbean when Jude Marrock brings his black Lab who has a gunshot wound. Devon treats Ned the black Lab, but Marrock mysteriously disappears leaving the dog with her as well as a promise to come get him soon.
Through this Devon is inadvertently drawn into Marrock’s shadowy world of greed and suspicion where the body count is piling and even Ned holds an important secret. As Devon and those she loves become a targets she must (more…)