Camino Ghosts

I just finished reading Camino Ghosts, John Grisham's third book in the series, which takes place on a thinly disguised Amelia Island, located just to the north of Jacksonville, Florida. The two main characters are Bruce Cable, owner of a very successful bookstore on the island, and Mercer Mann, a bestselling author who owns a cottage on the beach that she inherited, along with her sister, from her grandmother, who was a local legend. The first book in the series, Camino Island, centered around Cable's purchasing of a stolen collection of original F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts, and the hiring by the FBI of Mercer Mann to find proof of this. In the end, all turned out happily ever after for all concerned. In the second book, Camino Winds, Cable's reputation has been cleaned up by Grisham and the plot centers around a murder during a very dangerous hurricane. In Camino Ghosts, Cable, the leader of the literary crowd on Camino Island, suggests to Mercer that she write a non-fiction book about a woman named Lovely, who used to live on nearby Dark Isle, which was settled by runaway slaves, and is now threatened by unscrupulous developers. The story focuses on the fight to save the island and make it an historic site. I liked the book, although the storyline is not nearly as dramatic as the first two books. However, it definitely makes me want to visit Amelia Island and Fernandina Beach, the island's Victorian-era main town. One of these days...