I can never resist Jeanne Dams' Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt. In Shadows of Death the pair are invited to Orkney, Scotland, by an artist friend to visit the site of an ancient city being carefully excavated. Naturally, the body of the project's main benefactor is discovered in the middle of the archaeological dig on a remote island and the main suspect soon disappears. With a terror threat being investigated nearby, the local police rely on Alan and Dorothy to investigate.
One of the most wonderful things about Dams's characters is their authenticity. Alan and Dorothy are an older couple experiencing the aches and pains of aging (Dorothy had a knee replacement in an earlier book). The reader is drawn into the middle of their lives in every novel. We know what they eat, how much they miss their pets, what gives them indigestion,and when they shower or change clothes, and even when they make love, but it is all done so gently and subtly that it never gets boring. I thoroughly love Dorothy and Alan and I wait anxious for each new entry in the series to be published. I've even gotten my mother hooked! Dams always includes enough intrigue and action to entertain and the mystery is always interesting, but somehow she makes the reader believe that this couple could be real.
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