Kaleidoscope

The thirteenth in Gail Bowens beloved and award-winning Joanne Kilbourn mystery series promises to be the best of them all: some very bad things happen very, very close to home, and Joanne may never be quite the same again.

"Security for any one of us lies in greater abundance for all of us." For many years, this was the core of Joannes political beliefs, but for a number of reasons, she has drifted away from it. But on the day Joanne retires from her university teaching post, she has a dream about her first husband (murdered many years ago), and this line comes back vividly in it.

Soon, she is forced to experience the truth of what, for most of her life, had just been a good closing line for a political speech. The night after Jo and Zack have dinner with Zacks colleague Margot and one of his law firms biggest clients, the developer Leland Hunter, Jo and Zacks house is blown up. Theyre at the lake with daughter Taylor and their dogs, but the house is destroyed. And that is only the first of several terrible incidents. It isnt long before Joanne is witness to events far more distressing than even a destroyed home. She begins to understand what its like to live in a world where she can count on nothing.