1. Web of Evil - J. A. Jance

#2 Ali Reynolds, Sedona, AZ
audio read by Karen Ziemba
9 unabridged cds, 10.25 hours
2007 Simon & Schuster/Recorded Books

368 pgs.

Written for adults

Finished:  Sunday, 1-6-13 (read it from ME to PA on Dec. 27th and from Phoenix to Tucson on January 3rd)

Genre: Mystery

Goodreads Rating: 3.71

My Rating: It was okay/2

Acquired through PBS, will now try to "sell" it back!

Setting: Contemporary Los Angeles, CA

1^st sentence/s:  "When the man opened his eyes, it was so dark that at first he thought they were still closed."

My comments:  Ali Reynolds is definitely not one of my favorite protagonists, but the mysteries that she encounters are entertaining.  She writes a stupid blog called cutloose.com that seems irrelevant and silly, but the story was read well and kept me, for the most part, entertained.  This one took place in LA instead of Sedona, which I don't mind, but I love the Arizona setting.

Goodreads Review:
      The highway from Los Angeles to the Palm Springs desert is parched, unforgiving, and deadly. In the suffocating stillness of a car trunk, a man -- his mouth and hands bound with tape -- awaits his fate. What possible enemy could be bitter enough to commit such a heinous crime? And when will the monster make another move?
     Ali Reynolds is traveling that same blistering, lonesome highway, looking forward to putting her past behind her. But her cheating husband is in a hurry for a divorce, and the television network who wrongfully dismissed Ali for the sole sin of being over forty will face her in court as well. So Ali must return to the scene of these crimes. As she passes the site of a horrifying accident, she thanks goodness it's no longer her job to report the news. Until she finds out the news is her own. . . . For the victim is Ali's cheating husband, and soon she'll find herself the prime suspect at the center of a terrifying web of evil.