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Review - NOAH'S RAINY DAY - Sandra Brannan

Reviewed By
Karen Chisholm

NOAH'S RAINY DAY is the fourth novel in the Liv Bergen series, although it's the first I've come across. Which could be quite a large part of my problem - I really could not work out who was who and what was going on. Was truly lost, and slightly baffled for the entire book.

The character of Noah is obviously carefully crafted to tug at the heart strings, as well as provide somebody to really barrack for. Even the bloodhound Beulah is a strong character, much stronger than the central character, Bergen, whose voice seemed strangely wishy washy. That wasn't helped at all by the fact that there is obviously a lot of back story to Bergen, her family (I lost track of who was who) and what connection there was somewhere between the missing boy's family and Bergen's family. Actually that's not true, I really couldn't see the point of it. But there's also the enigmatic lover Jack (who seemed a rather standoffish sort of a bloke for a "lover"), and the rather "convenient" element of having a kidnapped boy held in the house next door to Noah. To say nothing of senior officers stomping around on crime scenes, and some rather baffling flummoxing around by the investigation team.

NOAH'S RAINY DAY is probably one of those books that, if you've read the earlier ones in the series, works for you. It's also seemingly a series designed to give people somebody to really barrack for (assuming Noah, although Bergen's probably got her cheer-squad as well). To be honest I never really connected with any of them - and spent most of the book feeling somewhat like I'd shown up at a party in fancy dress, when that idea had been dropped by the hosts weeks ago.

BOOK DETAILS
BOOK INFORMATION
ISBN
9781626340176
Year of Publication
Series
Book Number (in series)
4
BLURB

From birth, Noah Hogarty has lived with severe cerebral palsy. He is nearly blind, unable to speak, and cannot run, walk, or crawl. Yet his mind works just as well as any other twelve-year-old’s—maybe even better. And Noah holds a secret dream: to become a great spy, following in the footsteps of his aunt, Liv “Boots” Bergen.

Now, freshly returned from training at Quantico, FBI agent Liv Bergen is thrown into her first professional case. Working side by side with veteran agent Streeter Pierce, enigmatic agent and lover Jack Linwood, and her bloodhound Beulah, Liv must race to find five-year-old Max—last seen at the Denver International Airport—before this Christmastime abduction turns deadly. Meanwhile Noah, housebound, becomes wrapped up in identifying the young face he sees watching him from his neighbor’s bedroom window, but he can neither describe nor inscribe what he knows.

And his investigation may lead to Noah paying the ultimate price in fulfilling his dream.

Noah’s Rainy Day (the fourth novel in Brannan’s mystery series) combines classic Liv Bergen irreverence and brainpower with an unflinching look at the darkest of human motivations, all while a whirlpool of increasingly terrifying events threatens to engulf Liv and Noah both in one final rainy day.

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