A former detective is starting over in a small town, but his past won’t let him go in this gripping new stand-alone from the world’s bestselling thriller writer.

The Inn at Gloucester stands alone on the rocky New England shoreline. Its seclusion suits former Boston police detective Bill Robinson, novice owner and innkeeper. As long as the dozen residents pay their rent, Robinson doesn’t ask any questions.

Yet all too soon Robinson discovers that leaving the city is no escape from dangers he left behind. A new crew of deadly criminals move into the small town, bringing drugs and violence to the front door of the inn.

Robinson feels the weight of responsibility on his shoulders. His sense of duty compels him to fight off the threat to his town. But he can’t do it alone. Before time runs out, the residents of the inn will face a choice.

Stand together? Or die alone.

My Review

Another fantastic book by James Patterson and Candice Fox. No. it’s not great literature or anything particularly unique, but it’s exciting and entertaining with a good cast of characters.

Bill Robinson was thrown out of the police force in Boston and is starting again in a small town called Gloucester not too far away. But tragedy strikes when his wife Siobhan is killed and he finds himself running The Inn – a b & b that appears to attract the type of people who are also running away from something.

Susan is a retired FBI agent so why is she hiding out here? Angelica is a published author, Effie has a scar on her neck from something terrible that happened. And I love Vinny, an ex-gangster with a colourful past, but now in a wheelchair after being injured. Then there is Nick who is suffering from PTSD following his experiences in the Middle East.

Fifteen-year-old Marni is Siobhan’s niece who is living at The Inn for a reason I can’t remember. There are others too, but I don’t want this to sound more like a list than a review.

But the plot revolves around a man called Cline who has become very rich by selling drugs to teenagers. Gloucester has become his target town. He holds lavish parties where he hands out the drugs. Cross him and it won’t end well. But Bill and Nick are not put off especially when Cline starts targeting their own.

I’m looking forward to Book Two. Bring it on.

About the Authors

Candice Fox is the middle child of a large, eccentric family from Sydney’s western suburbs composed of half-adopted and pseudo siblings. The daughter of a parole officer and an enthusiastic foster-carer, Candice spent her childhood listening around corners to tales of violence, madness and evil as her father relayed his work stories to her mother and older brothers.

As a cynical and trouble-making teenager, her crime and gothic fiction writing was an escape from the calamity of her home life. She was constantly in trouble for reading Anne Rice in church and scaring her friends with tales from Australia’s wealth of true crime writers.

Bankstown born and bred, she failed to conform to military life in a brief stint as an officer in the Royal Australian Navy at age eighteen. At twenty, she turned her hand to academia, and taught high school through two undergraduate and two postgraduate degrees. Candice lectures in writing at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, while undertaking a PhD in literary censorship and terrorism.

James Patterson is the most popular storyteller of our time and the creator of such unforgettable characters and series as Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Jane Smith, and Maximum Ride. He has coauthored #1 bestselling novels with Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton, and Michael Crichton, as well as collaborated on #1 bestselling nonfiction, including The Idaho Four, Walk in My Combat Boots, and Filthy Rich. Patterson has told the story of his own life in the #1 bestselling autobiography James Patterson by James Patterson. He is the recipient of an Edgar Award, ten Emmy Awards, the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation, and the National Humanities Medal.