“Rebel Island”   By Rick Riordan

       A Tres Navarre  Mystery

 

2011 Book Review #80

From both 

the Publishers Weekly Review 

            and the Booklist Review.

  

San Antonio’s PI Tres Navarre has just retired and married his longtime girlfriend, Maia, who's eight-plus-months pregnant.  Tres' wheelchair-bound older brother, Garret, has persuaded the couple to honeymoon together with him and other old friends on the Texas Gulf's Rebel Island.  This is the same island where Tres and Garret spent vacations with their dysfunctional parents.

The fly in the ointment is when the hotel's owner, (Garrett's old chum and Tres' nemesis), Alex Huff, and the desk clerk go missing. Actually, there are two flies in the ointment. The second is a series of mysterious goings-on that Garrett thinks Tres may be able to unravel.  To complicate matters, as the bodies begin piling up, a lethal hurricane approaches. 

Fans will enjoy the update on Tres' life as he prowls through secret passageways hunting down the ghostlike killer while the roof of the island's old hotel begins to shred and the seas begin to rise.

My Thoughts:  I found it hard to put this book down!  This is only the second book of Riordan’s I have read and I am ordering more from the library!