Book Review-Older Books 23

Review—Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Are You Afraid of the Dark?, by Sidney Sheldon.  Published by William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, September 2004, 377 pages.

Across the world people are dying.  Their connection is that in one way or another they are connected to Kingsley International Group (KIG), one of the largest think tanks in the world.  There business covers the globe.

Kelly Harris and Diane Stevens are young widows of two of the recently deceased.  Their husbands both worked for KIG.  They meet in New York City after meeting with Tanner Kingsley, the owner of KIG.  The two, in an effort to confront their loss and search for clues as to why their husbands may have been murdered, bond, even as some man with a scar seems intent on ending their lives.

Kelly and Diane seek help from Tanner, who promises he is doing all he can to find the answers to these murders.  The man with the scar keeps finding them and their lives are in constant danger, no mater how many precautions they take.  The search takes them across the continent and to Eastern and Western Europe, with peril trailing their every move.  Tanner Kingsley is a Nobel Prize winner and so was his brother.  They started their company to help the world. But Tanner had other plans for this think tank, and they are just now being realized.  His motives and drive propel his company into a source to be reckoned with and these two women may disrupt all of his plans.  And while he feels they are no match for him, he just can’t seem to pin them down.

Sidney Sheldon is a novelist of renown and I have enjoyed his books for many years.  This book was exciting to read, but started out slow and in what seemed like just too many players.  When it tapered down to just a few, it moved fast and kept my attention hooked to see shat would happen next.