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Reunion: A Jack Marston Mystery Paperback – November 1, 2016

by Carl Brookins (Author)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
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While still exploring their relationship, Jack Marston persuades his companion, psychologist Lori Jacobs to attend her high school class reunion with Jack as her escort. After a classmate is discovered brutally murdered at the reunion Jack and Lori are drawn into the search for the murderer and themselves targeted as they begin to reveal years of passion and corruption beneath the placid small-town surface of Riverview.
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    0985390697
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brookins Books (November 1, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 228 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0985390697
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0985390693
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.52 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

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Carl Brookins

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Retired from a local university, I've entered a new career as a reviewer and author. The Michael Tanner/Mary Whitney sailing adventure series (INNER PASSAGES, A SUPERIOR MYSTERY, OLD SILVER) are my initial foray.

Now I'm branching out with a new series featuring a Twin Cities detective named Sean NMI Sean. His first story is THE CASE OF THE GREEDY LAWYERS. I live and work in Minnesota and travel with that nefarious band of authors called the Minnesota Crime Wave.Sean's current case is THE CASE OF THE PURLOINED PAINTING, having to do with WWII souvenir retrieval.

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Phyliss Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars a fun read.
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2013
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Needed something to read for the weekend, downloaded on my kindle. Have read other books by Carl Brookins so I enjoyed it.
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Chris123
3.0 out of 5 stars Fun cozy mystery
Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2017
Small town, lots of secrets, one reunion, and murder...

When Jack Marston persuades his girlfriend, Lori, to attend her highschool reunion, he is unprepared to be taken along to the event. He is even less prepared to face the murder of one of Lori's classmates. And that's when it all begins...

The plot was a fun, generally cozy mystery that bumped along at a reasonable pace and harked back to the RL Stine type high-school dramas (only with adult protagonists) combined with a hardcore read on small-town corruption and distrust. The writing felt a little too like that developed in a writing class, often stunted by over-description and unrealistic dialogue. But a fun read nonetheless.

*Thank you to the author for the free review copy.
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Mary Welk
4.0 out of 5 stars Reunion: Enjoyable new book by Carl Brookins
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2011
Jack Marston's past includes a stint in the Navy as a NCIS investigator. Now living a more sedate life as the director of student services at City College in Minneapolis, Jack has no idea his former occupation will prove useful when he accompanies the woman he loves to her twentieth-year high school reunion in the Minnesota farming community of Riverview. But he soon learns that psychologist Lori Jacobs' hometown in no way resembles the idyllic rural locale he imagined. Deeply held secrets dominate life in this pastoral setting of white-painted farmhouses and lush fields of wheat. Backbiting gossip, sly innuendo, and downright hostility mark the opening festivities of the class of '89's reunion. Unsettling as they may be for Jack, these activities pale in comparison to the gruesome murder of one of Lori's classmates outside Georgiana's 40-Mile Club.

Elroy Guteman's death puts a damper on, but doesn't stop, the weekend celebration. While Sheriff Arnason investigates the crime, the remaining members of Lori's class continue their scheduled activities in and around town. Then another former graduate winds up dead, and Arnason enlists Jack as a second pair of eyes and ears within the reunion group. What Jack observes is often confusing to him, but having grown up in Riverview, Lori is able to supply answers for most of his questions. Some of those answers exact a toll on Lori; resurrecting old memories requires her to face long denied demons from her early life.

Working as a team, the pair gradually pieces together a stunning puzzle that links underhanded deals and long forgotten deaths not only with people from Lori's past, but also with present residents of Riverview. But obtaining final justice isn't easy for Jack and Lori. Death and danger dog their every footstep as they pursue truth in a town dedicated to preserving easy lies.

Carl Brookins presents readers with a complicated but logically constructed story in REUNION. Jack and Lori are fabulous characters with strong personalities that mesh nicely even under stress. Other characters are equally believable and well described, as is the rural setting of Riverview. The author displays a keen awareness of life in small communities, where relationships between neighbors are generally close, and gossip and secrecy often distort the truth of a situation. This awareness is complimented by Brookins' understanding of rural economic conditions where farmers are held hostage to both the weather and the whims of the futures market. By introducing a third complication into this mix -- namely the mortgage-and-loan business -- Brookins successfully engages readers in not one, but two distinct mysteries within a single story. The plot moves along at a nice pace and is complimented by dialogue that is natural and flows smoothly. I greatly enjoyed this book. My only criticism of it concerns the number of characters with similar sounding names. With a cast as large as the one in REUNION, it was easy at times to confuse one minor character with another when their names sounded so alike.
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Marilyn Meredith
5.0 out of 5 stars Murder at a High School Reunion
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2017
How many of us have had mixed emotions about attending our high school class reunions? What if you went against your better judgment and during the first event one of your old classmates was found murdered?

That’s what happens in Carl Brookins Reunion. Lori Jacobs receives an invitation to her high school reunion and convinces here significant other, Jack Marston to accompany her on this visit to her hometown of Riverview. Like with many reunions, Lori is warmly welcomed back by some with others not quite as friendly.

After the body of one of Lori’s classmates is discovered during the first event of the reunion, the local law enforcement recruits Jack to help out with the investigation since he’d once served as an investigator in the Navy. Neither Jack nor Lori were enthusiastic about his recruitment. And the more involved they became it was soon obvious the town’s people weren’t happy about it either.

Inevitably, the more Jack and Lori learned, they realized that along with other class members, they were now in danger too. The small town of Riverdale has an undercurrent of secrets, lies, dirty dealings.

Reunion has plenty of actions, plot twists and surprises to keep the reader turning pages. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I’ve read and enjoyed other books by Brookins and this is one of my favorites.
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Cyrus Webb
5.0 out of 5 stars REVIEW: Carl Brookins' REUNION
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2012
No matter how far you try to get from your past there is always something that seems to bring you back, opening up wounds and unresolved situations that you have tried to escape.

In REUNION author Carl Brookins introduces us to Jack Marston his girlfriend Lori Jacobs. As a couple they have their own issue, but when the announcement of a reunion from Lori's past comes along, Jack believes this might be an opportunity to become closer together. Who would have known that it would actually bring them more questions than answers.

Something is going on in Lori's hometown, something she has tried to escape but is not so easy to avoid. When murder becomes a part of the "reunion", Jack realizes that there is more to the town than meets the eye and begins the process of trying to unravel the mystery before it's too late.

I enjoyed this book not only because of the mystery element but the human element as well. Jack and Lori are like so many other individuals that we know: trying to move forward when something keeps holding them back. The author shows that true happiness can only come when we have embraced the truth and opened ourselves up to the possibilities that life and love have to offer.

Giving readers something that they will enjoy from one page to another, REUNION brings you a story well worth the time to read it.
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