![]() ![]() He starts saying things such as ‘‘Just what I suspected’’ almost immediately. Nick is an entertaining character because he inhales crime novels and is thrilled to be able to start acting like a character in one. In the midst of all this, Bruce, the prison writer Bob and Nick Sutton, a college kid who works summers in the bookstore, start their detective work. ![]() Suddenly we find ourselves amid downed trees and heaps of wreckage, as Camino goes from island paradise to disaster area. Was he killed because of something that was in it? Want to guess? Camino Island is hit hard - and Nelson Kerr, the lawyer-turned-thriller writer, shows up dead. Then, with the literary chatter behind him, Grisham brings on the hurricane and the real story. And Mercer’s new two-book deal is envied but celebrated. The thriller writer who used to work as a high-powered lawyer tells fishing stories. After your last book I felt I’d been gang-raped.’’ (In this crowd, that’s a compliment.) The ‘‘brooding poet’’ who never sells books is advised to write something raunchier under another name. The ex-con is teased about his subject matter: ‘‘Please, Bob,’’ someone says. The biggest earner, who writes books about young vampires, is a bore talking about her movie. We get full Southern hospitality in this early scene, from Bruce’s ‘‘magazine quality’’ table settings and candelabras to the menu to the chatter. This is the kind of thing that could get Grisham into trouble if he had a pricklier following, but in ‘‘Camino Winds’’ it just adds to the gossipy atmosphere that hovers over the dinner party. With the authority of someone who’s been doing whatever he likes for decades, Grisham has planted an extraordinary bookshop on Camino, with Bruce as the bon vivant who runs it.īruce is so passionate about his work that he often has flings with female writers who stop by. The novel opens with a dinner party celebrating the end of her 34-stop book tour, which naturally brings her to Bruce Cable’s renowned Bay Books. Mercer, who was a fledgling author in ‘‘Camino Island,’’ is now a literary and commercial success. This is a Camino book with elements of a more traditional Grisham thriller thrown in. If ‘‘Camino Winds’’ is breezy, that’s mostly because its plot involves a ferocious hurricane. So readers might be glad to know that a sequel has arrived, although its tone isn’t nearly as light. It also starred a woman, Mercer Mann, who put the book squarely in Reese Witherspoon country.Īnyone who enjoyed ‘‘Camino Island’’ came away hoping it was the start of a series. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts, a colony of gossipy writers and a lot of languid vacation time. This wouldn’t be much of a departure for some authors, but coming from Grisham it was a delightful surprise - all the more so because the sand was on the fictitious Camino Island, a Florida resort featuring one of the world’s great bookstores, stolen F. He ditched the lawyers to write an actual beach book, sand and all. Three years ago, John Grisham came up with a new formula for success. ![]()
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