Raleigh Harmon, geologist and special agent for the FBI, is suddenly transferred from the Richmond field office to Seattle. A missing hiker, a ransom note, and a "friend" with deadly intentions all ensure that there's no time for an easy transition.
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Raleigh Harmon, geologist and special agent for the FBI, is suddenly transferred from the Richmond field office to Seattle. A missing hiker, a ransom note, and a "friend" with deadly intentions all ensure that there's no time for an easy transition.
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Special Agent Raleigh Harmon is good at her job; forensic geology investigation for the FBI. In The Rivers Run Dry, the second installation in a budding series about Raleigh?s adventures, (written by author Sibella Giorello,) she has just been transferred to Seattle from Richmond as the result of some serious politicking at the end of book one: The Stones Cry Out.
As one of the few females on her new team, Raleigh finds herself struggling: the new workplace and living-space, the strains of caring for an ailing mother, and the half-bullying of a confusing colleague all add up to a tough transition.
Then a young college girl goes missing while hiking in the woods, and a ransom note is sent to her worried ? and worryingly rich ? parents. Raleigh vows to find the girl, relying on her background in geology and her training as an FBI agent to uncover the truth. By the way, just as a slight ?spoiler?, the end truth is so unexpected that I?d be willing to bet my signed Rebecca St. James CD that you won?t guess ?whodunit? until at least chapter twenty eight. Hint: just ignore that annoying character named Claire. She?s right, but you?ll never ?get it? listening to her random rambling.
OK, so enough of the spoiling the book for you. You came here for a review, not a Cliff?s Notes version.
At any rate, The Rivers Run Dry balances on a very thin edge between good reading and...otherwise. Not that it's bad ? it?s a great story ? but it?s?different somehow. Slow, but not really. Shallow characters at times, but for all the right reasons, you still care about them and cheer them on wholeheartedly. A good mystery, but hard to follow at times.
Part of this, I think, is that you don?t ?hear? Raleigh?s thoughts all the time. Sometimes you do, but when it comes to the important stuff ? like why this clue pertains to this one ? it?s like the window slams shut.
Overall, though, the religious ambiguity in Raleigh?s life is the only thing that really bothered me. She?s a Christian, but church and a personal life with God seem to play a pretty small part. Even that I could handle, but Raleigh?s mother ? who seems to suffer from some kind of manic depression or mild dementia ? dabbles in all sorts of ?spiritual? cloudiness. From ultra-conservative communes to charismatic churches to New Age garbage, the woman looks to be seeking, and though Raleigh seems to know the answers, she acts content to let her mother wander willy-nilly over the religious landscape. I would hope that Mrs. Giorello sheds some brighter light on this subject in the future.
Personally, I enjoyed The Rivers Run Dry. Before reading it for Thomas Nelson, I picked up a copy of The Stones Cry Out, so I?d know what was going on. And let me say, The Rivers Run Dry is twice as compelling and fascinating as its predecessor. The Stones Cry Out was good, but I definitely liked The Rivers Run Dry better.
This is a book to check out ? here?s a link to Thomas Nelson?s website: (click here). And I?ll be waiting eagerly for Raleigh Book three, (The Clouds Roll Away) set to hit the shelves March of 2010.
