{"id":1754,"date":"2015-08-30T12:58:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T19:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2015-08-30T12:58:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T19:58:06","slug":"brian-freeman-season-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/brian-freeman-season-of-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Freeman: Season of Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Season-of-Fear\"<\/a>Taking the detective from his excellent stand-alone, The Bone House<\/em>, Freeman brings the eccentric Cab Bolton to Florida and lands him in the middle of an unholy mess. The novel begins with a shooting at a political rally, where the candidate and a couple others were shot and killed. The shooter escapes and a later capture and imprisonment leaves some folks not so sure the right person is in jail for the crime. Flash forward 10 years and the dead candidate\u2019s wife, Diane, is in the race for Florida Governor as a third party candidate. She\u2019s supported by her best friend, Tarla, who also happens to be Cab\u2019s mother. Cab has been asked by a campaign operative to look into possible threats to Diane as the 10th anniversary of the shooting approaches.<\/p>\n

Incredibly timely, Freeman\u2019s book is a look at the backstage part of politics, set during a hurricane. Along with Cab, the book focuses on Peach Piper, a political operative who does \u201copposition research.\u201d Peach was far and away my favorite character in the novel, as she\u2019s incredibly nuanced. She\u2019s fierce and smart but also damaged by the shooting of her brother, who died along with Diane\u2019s husband in the incident that opens the book. She\u2019s also recently lost her boyfriend to murder and while cops and others are saying his death was drug related, she isn\u2019t buying it.<\/p>\n

While she continues her work for the campaign she\u2019s also working on her own to find her boyfriend\u2019s killer and exonerate his name. She\u2019s not sure who to trust, and neither is the reader, though all through I was certain Peach and Cab were OK. Everyone else was a question mark.<\/p>\n

This is a tightly wound thriller that climaxes with a hurricane \u2013 a very Florida occurrence, and as the book draws to a close there are a number of surprising twists and turns of plot. One in particular was especially neat and surprising. This is a book you won\u2019t be able to stop reading as you race to find out the ways Cab and Peach help each other figure out the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taking the detective from his excellent stand-alone, The Bone House, Freeman brings the eccentric Cab Bolton to Florida and lands him in the middle of an unholy mess. The novel begins with a shooting at a political rally, where the candidate and a couple others were shot and killed. The shooter escapes and a later … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-suspensethriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1756,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}