Seventh in series

I liked this book a bit more than the previous couple, but I still felt like it was only an average book.

To start with the plot. There's a hidden treasure in Cassidy's town. Or in the woods around it at least. And everyone seems to have gone crazy over it. Of course, Cassidy doesn't find out about the little treasure hunt until Tommy Green, the guy at the main land's docks gets beaten to within an inch of his life and put into a coma so that his brain can heal.

That brings a weird group of people together. Cassidy, Erica (oy, she's back), a pair of twin brothers with a sad past and vastly different additudes, and Lizzie, the bartender and owner of Lizzie's Tavern. They're all trying to figure out who hurt Tommy (which no one can understand since everyone in town seems to like him). And what they find totally blows their mind, not to mention spurs some wicked insane and complicated plans to solve the mystery and catch the bad guy.

My first problem with the novel was the librarian. Even in 1999, when this book was published, I'm pretty sure that most of the librarians I know would never, ever have given the information about the checked out books and who checked them out to anyone but the patron who did the checking (or the authorities with the right legal papers presented of course). Not even if the librarian was a very 'helpful' one, and the person asking was known to the librarian, or 'nice'. Nope. It would never happen, even back then.

And unfortunately the mystery was just a bit too predictable in places, although I was guessing a bit more during this one vs. the previous ones.

An interesting and twisty plot and a lot of interesting psychological stuff. Solid three stars. ( )