House Privilege: A Joe DeMarco Thriller: 14

Maybe unbelievably this is the fourteenth in the Joe DeMarco series. On this occasion DeMarco is sent by his boss, soon to be speaker of the House John Mahoney, to Boston to look after Cassie, the teenage daughter of multi-billionaire Connor Russell, and sole survivor of a plane crash which killed her parents and left her the heir to the family fortune. Mahoney is the girl’s godfather and guardian.When DeMarco reaches Boston, his suspicions are immediately aroused by a particular sequence of events which includes the death of an accountant investigating the Russell Trust. The plot starts slowly, but the pace increases rapidly and ends in.........well that would be giving the game away. Read the novel to find out.Some authors seem to have the ability to introduce characters into the storyline without making the whole plot too difficult to follow. Other authors seem to have difficulty with just half a dozen characters. Fortunately, Mike Lawson belongs to the former group. All the characters were well defined and had individual personalities. I have not read any of the previous thirteen DeMarco novels but didn’t feel at a disadvantage or at all disenfranchised.It has to be admitted that after a few pages I knew I was going to hate this thriller as I disliked the short, staccato sentences. I persevered, and after a couple more chapters was so engrossed, I couldn’t put down the kindle. This might have been the fourteenth in the series, but it felt fresh and alive. How Lawson has kept up this quality of writing is something to be respected, and I shall be spending my pennies on some of his previous tomes. Brilliant.mr zorgElite Reviewing Group received a copy of the book to review