Harriet Klausner's Review Archive
After raising her children by running a bed and breakfast, Jeanne realizes she is tired of mothering her guests and being available whenever her adult children need her. She decides to start a new life starting with selling the B&B and moving into an RV. She travels staying at RV camps and writing pamphlets on sights to see in a particular area.
At her latest camp stop, Jeanne meets Becca whose husband Larry left her leaving a vague note behind that told her nothing. Also at the camp, retired police officer Matt wants to work with Jeanne to find out what happened to Larry. Becca learns that Larry had a life apart from her; he was a healer using elixirs he made that worked when regular medicine failed. Larry's family believes that he in hiding, dead, or making a new life for himself without Becca. Matt and Jeanne try to help Becca find answers and closure though the truth may prove painful.
RAIN is an imaginative mystery because the plot revolves around learning what happened to the missing Larry. The look at life in an RV camp adds fascination to the whodunit, but the key cast members never come fully alive especially at the campgrounds where they represent stereotypes. Still this is a fast-paced tale in which readers along with Becca will want to know what happened to Larry.