The Mountains Bow Down is the first book I have read from Sibella Giorello. Raleigh Harmon is an FBI agent (but don’t tell her mother) who, while on a combination family vacation/movie advisor job aboard a cruise ship to Alaska, is caught up in the investigation of a woman found hanging from the side of the ship. At first it looks like a suicide, but quickly turns out to be a murder. What’s more, the dead woman is the wife of the movie’s star. Raleigh asks for help from her boss at the FBI and he sends out a former co-worker, FBI Agent Jack Stephanson, a person Raleigh would rather not see again. During their investigation, they uncover some interesting facts about the movie crew, the actors, and the deceased wife, and it seems like any of them would have a reason for murder.
I really enjoyed this book. This is the fourth book in the series, so I am definitely going to get the previous books to read them. I would like to understand more of the references to past cases and incidents mentioned in this book. The writing is not too descriptive, not too repetitive and the action starts right away. Everything is just right. A side plot is also thrown in. During this investigation, Raleigh has to deal with her widowed mother's mental slide, and her Aunt Charlotte's (the owner of a New Age boutique) and Charlotte's friend Clair's (a psychic) weird antics. The book is great, and I am definitely wanting to read the next installment.
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