Camino Winds: A Novel Mass Market Paperback – February 23, 2021

Book came in perfect condition, my mom loved the book!!

It was fun to return to Camino Island. This book wasn't as good as the first one. It had a great story, tension and an excellent narrator in January LaVoy. This edition changes narrators in Michael Beck, who isn't as good. This book is a murder mystery during a hurricane. It is a good character study which started slow, but got better as it went along. I had an issue with the ending. We didn't find out what happened to everyone, just a recap and then the book stops. That was annoying. The first book had a nice ending. I won't be listening to the third book, I'm not pleased with the narrator choice of Whoopi Goldberg, a return to January LaVoy would have been better.

The latest novel of John Grisham namely,Camino Winds, is an important piece of fiction. The book revolves around the prevalent intensity of the world of Global Crimes. The characters of the novel are living ones and can easily be identified in our daily life The antagonists are the rich businessmen who make millions through fraud,tax evasion and money laundering.The proceeds of crime are put behind a maze of off shore shell companies to avoid tax and money trail, obviously criminals have no morals, as they are motivated by their own goals which are based on cheating and fraud . The character of contract killers - who kill people for the sake of money stands well exposed in the novel.The author has smartly done the anatomy of the role of mafia and organized crime syndicates.The central theme of the novel is the mystery murder of Nelson Kerr in a stormy night. Nelson was a well known crime novelist. There was a rumor in the air that Nelson was writing a new novel to expose the Nursing Home Frauds. Bruce Cable, the owner of Bay Books, the lone book store in the Camino Island, knew this fact.Bruce is an interesting character who entertains his friends while offering them wine and Coffee in order to make them merry and happy.He is a popular figure among the writers community living in the island.Bruce is informed by Police about the death of Nelson and he stood shocked to learn that . After seeing the scene of occurrence he and his friends reviewed the events of the past week and carried out an anatomy of the happenings. They came to the conclusi that it was not a natural death but a planned murder bringing in the element of mystery in the novel.The author has successfully established that we live in the world of informers,snitches ,whistle blowers and rats .One of the main motive behind killings , as per author , is to punish culprits of bad business deals.Espionage and contract killings are rampant and spy services thrive on the strength of beautiful women whom they recruit and these charming ladies know how to seduce the wanted person. The spy services recruit typical ex-servicemen who in their career had never responded to authority and worked for their own motives. The author brings out that equity and equality are scarified to extend beneficial actions to undeserved. People stand cheated as usual and the state authority bestows gains to the thugs of the society.And it all happens through corruption and unlawful means. The state organs as usual fail to check the formation of monopolies .The fraudesters thrive while defeat the state regulatory framework through the use of illegal means, In the end all these lopeholes are unearhed and character of state police force is exposed who are invoved in the ongoing crimes to provide shelter to the gangsters,The novel is built on a simple but powerful plot possessing all the key elements of a thriller.The charcters are fully developed who know their role perfectly. The protognist Bruce is liked by the readers and they cheer for him for his dynamic role and the way he helps to net the culprits, the antognists inspite of their powerful tools and the protognist forces them fail tin their endaveour to succeed in theplanned ugly designs. The character of county police is flat and static.The convolutions of the human personality, under the stress of artfully selected experience, are the chief fascination of the novel. The author has succesfully constructed the maze of lust greed,and desire which are basic causes for antognists to exploit the ordinary people whoes hearts are free from impurities of the soul. Zafar Iqbal Choudhry.

The main character Bruce, assembles friends for a dinner party days before a major hurricane hits Camino Island. Bruce is a long time book seller and mentor to aspiring and established authors. Bruce and his friends hunker down separately as the hurricane approaches. (As an aside, I have stayed in my home during major hurricane(s) and would not advise it. However, John Grisham’s description of riding out a hurricane and the chaotic aftermath is spot on.). After the hurricane has passed, he ventures out to check n the damage to his home and bookstore as well as making his way to check on his friends. Bruce finds Nelson dead on his patio with clear head trauma and fallen limbs nearby. He soon realizes that the injuries are too many to have been caused by a fallen limb and expects the police, investigator and coroner to determine what actually happened to Nelson. Need less to say, all first responders are very busy with the hurricane aftermath to quickly investigate the death. Soon Bruce, Nick and Bob try to figure out what happened to Nelson. Was it murder? Why? Nelson has a controversial past and writes about touchy government subjects. Is the current manuscript a clue? Where is it? As the group hires an investigating agency, they soon realize that Nelson may have been writing a book based on an “informer” regarding Medicare and Medicaid fraud in nursing homes. To avoid spoilers, I will leave it there but while it is a good story, I kept imagining and anticipating surprise twists and turns that never materialized. Plot development and storyline good but it left me wanting more.

I think I have read everything Grisham has written and this is so different than most but very intriguing and full of action from beginning to the end. You will not want to put it down. Read it in two days.