Nature of the Beast/ Louise Penny/376 pages

The Nature of the Beast is the eleventh novel in the Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny.  Now retired, Inspector Gamache pursues a quite lifestyle in Three Pines.  A young boy with a big imagination goes missing in Three Pines.  This time what sounds imagined is real and does not bode well for the young man.  As physicists and spies descend on Three Pines, Gamache, Beauvouir and LaCoste search for a murderer, a weapons designer all the while trying to figure out how a notorious murder fits in the mix.  While part of the plot is slightly difficult to believe, it was still an interesting read of what could have been.

Nemesis/Catherine Coulter/384 pages

Savich and Sherlock are working on separate cases in Coulter's latest installment of the FBI Thriller series. Sherlock was on her way home when she was pulled into a terrorist's attempt to blow up a grenade in the security line. The New York FBI office decides that she will be a good resource, so they keep her on the bigger case tracking down the person behind the attack. Savich, on the other hand, is at home in D.C. looking for the reason a young man would stab a good friend in broad daylight and not remember he did. That case pulls him into a small town with families of Wiccan and intertwining relationships.

Good addition to the series. Coulter stays true to the characters and the backstory she has created.