Another Fun Munroe Adventure
The Vanessa Munroe novels have quickly become a favorite of mine, having somewhat filled the hole left by the end of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series. So while looking for a book to take on vacation with me this summer, I was thrilled to find The Mask. On this go-round Vanessa has joined her lover in Japan after he takes a rather mundane job in security for a biomedical company. Shortly thereafter he is framed for the murder of one of the employees and it is up to her to save him from a life in Japanese prison. As always, I enjoyed the fast pace action as Munroe has to kick ass and take names to save her boyfriend, however, this time around it was plagued by what I felt were unnecessary emotions. I personally did not understand why she took such great offense to some of the things Bradford had done and said. In their line of work, deception is a must and with the well spoken trust that has been built between them in the previous novels, her heartbreak and misgiving