Book Details:
Book Title: Finding Ruby Draker by Marianne Scott
Category: Adult Fiction (18+), 330 pages
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Publisher: Friesen Press
Release date: Original January 2016. Relaunch March 2022
Content Rating: PG-13 +M. Occasional Profanity
Check out the book description below for more information on Shadows in the Aftermath, but here are my thoughts.
If you go to my review of finding Ruby Draker, you will see that I loved this unique spy thriller. Shadows in the Aftermath is a sequel to that book and I believe they should be read in order. While Marianne Scott does a great job of filling the reader in about what happened in book one, there’s a depth of emotion that I just don’t think any reader can get if they miss part of this particular journey.
On a side note, I am in love with the cover for Shadows in the Aftermath, which give a much more mysterious vibe than the cover for Finding Ruby Draker. So kudos to the design team on this cover and I hope they do a similar cover for Finding Ruby Draker, if only to create cohesiveness.
Shadows in the Aftermath is actually a pretty different story than its predecessory because Ruby Draker doesn’t go through a journey for her new identity. She is cemented into this new family and is on a mission of love to fully understand and grieve the ending of book one.
Because of this shift of story telling angles, I found some of the driving force behind the narrative to be a little less apparent. The mystery and the characters had to shift to new perspectives, which changed a lot for me, but not necessarily in a bad way.
With the introduction of plutonium and the CIA, we really get a spy thriller, and I’m a fan of this genre on its own. Add in crime family drama and you have an exciting read full of page turning twists. I defeinitely recommend Shadows in the Aftermath to thriller lovers.
Book Title: Shadows in the Aftermath by Marianne Scott
Category: Adult Fiction (18+), 330 pages
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Publisher: Friesen Press
Release date: June 2022
Content Rating: PG-13 +M. Occasional Profanity
Ruby Draker has found new strength and is ready to move on after Felix Szabo devastated the Draker estate in Nice, France. Three Drakers are dead leaving Ruby in grief and with thoughts of revenge. The Drakers are a family built of survivors; each rescued from Felix Szabo, a psychopath, who sought to murder his former agents at the CIA whom he believed betrayed him. The Drakers’ sole mission is to stop Szabo from adding more victims to his list, and although he also perished during the invasion, his legacy continues to haunt them. When the Drakers learn that Robert Draker, presumed dead since the shoot-out at Robert’s farmhouse, may be alive and at a rehab clinic in Portland, Maine, the Drakers know it could be a setup, but they have no choice but to try to find him and bring Robert home.
Shocked that Robert may be alive, the family head from France to America to find him. It’s only when they arrive in the west that they realize finding Robert won’t be as easy as they thought. Szabo has found a way to terrorize the Draker family, even after death. His outstanding debt with a Corsican crime family means the Drakers must now find and deliver a shipment of plutonium, which will likely be used by terrorists to create a nuclear bomb, to get Robert back. As Ruby struggles with the decision to save her brother or North America, she must also evade the CIA, who are trying to stop the Drakers from delivering the plutonium.
Marianne Scott is the Canadian author of four mystery thrillers and is currently finishing an edit on her fourth novel, a murder mystery. She has a BA and a Diploma in Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, CA. She studied creative writing through Conestoga College and Humber College. She enjoys writing workshops such as those offered by Brian Henry, publisher of the blog, Quick Brown Fox, and One Lit Place, a writers’ hub by creator/editor Jenna Kalinsky. She has an author’s website and blog is the president of The Cambridge Writers’ Collective and is a member of the Guelph Genre Writers. In September of 2018, she completed a fourth-year course in Writing Fiction at the University of Guelph under the expert teaching of Lawrence Hill. Her novels, Finding Ruby Draker and Shadows in the Aftermath are self-published. She is actively seeking representation to break into the traditional publishing world with her third and fourth novels.
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