Sandra Brown’s suspense thriller, Ricochet, is evidence that this talented author can still produce a superior, romantic thriller as she weaves an intricate tale of sex, murder, betrayal and vengeance into an edge-of-your-seat experience. In this her latest work, Brown’s tightly wound plot offers a complex mix of credible characters  that include a tough detective, his partner, a nothing grosses me out medical examiner, an evil-incarnate drug lord, and a just barely within the law private eye.  

The story centers around Cato Laird, a superior court judge, and his wife, Elise, a character shrouded in mystery leaving the audience to wonder if she is a clever murderer or an innocent dupe. Complicating the murder investigation by Duncan and his partner, Dee Dee, are Duncan’s ever growing feelings for Elise with whom he shares sexual encounters that make him come down harder on her than he normally would and his need to find answers about the connections between all the players.  

Brown is definitely back in her game with Ricochet, which accurately describes the reader’s feelings as they are placed in a roller coaster stream of events, including graphically explicit language, sex and violence, that leaves the reader guessing right up to the last paragraph who actually committed the crime. The book was a great read, one that surprisingly was not exaggerated by the book’s blurb. One can only hope that Brown’s next novel lives up to Ricochet, which I, for one, thought was one of the best mysteries in the past year. 

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