The View from Rainshadow Bay by Colleen Coble

The View from Rainshadow Bay by Colleen Coble ISBN-13: 9780718085766 Trade Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Thomas Nelson Released: Jan. 23, 2018

Source: ARC review copy from the publisher through Amazon Vine.

Book Description, Modified from NetGalley:
After her husband, Jack, dies in a climbing incident, Shauna has only her five-year-old son and her helicopter charter business to live for. Every day is a struggle to make ends meet and she lives in constant fear of losing even more than she already has.

When a close friend is murdered, his final words convince Shauna that she’s in danger too. But where can she turn? Zach Bannister was her husband’s best friend and is the person she blames for his death. She’s barely spoken to him since. But right now he seems her only hope for protecting her son.

Zach is only too happy to assuage his guilt over Jack’s death by helping Shauna any way he can. But there are secrets involved dating back to Shauna’s childhood that more than one person would prefer to stay hidden.


My Review:
The View from Rainshadow Bay is a romantic suspense novel. Zach has Shauna stay at his house so that he can protect her and her son. This makes sense logically, but she blames him for the death of her husband, so they have to work through the blame (as he also blames himself) before the friendship they'd previously enjoyed can turn romantic.

The good guys don't know why someone is going around killing people and few clues are left, but it's clear he's willing to kill again to get what he wants. And he thinks Shauna has what he wants. Shauna and Zach follow up a necklace clue that seems to have more to do with Shauna's traumatic past than the present, while the police follow up on the current murders.

The bad guy's identity is hidden until nearly the end, but the reader gets hints about who it is, so there's a bit of "guess whodunit" to the story. I figured out who it was very early on, but I was surprised by the identity of the person he's working with. My only complaint is that there were a few loose ends that I wish had been wrapped up.

The Christian message was trusting God with your fears and safety. There was no sex or bad language. Overall, I'd recommend this exciting novel.


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