Reading Ahead: January 2019, part 3

Winter is often the season when many readers turn to easy reading to while away a bitterly cold night. If that sounds like you, read on!

Turning Point, by Danielle Steel. Four busy and dedicated California doctors are chosen for an honor and a unique project: to work with their counterparts in Paris in a mass-casualty training program. As professionals, they will gain invaluable experience. As men and women, they will find that their time in the City of Lights offers them a variety of personal opportunities. But when an unspeakable act of mass violence calls them all into action, this will be their turning point, when each must make choices that will change each of them forever. Also available in Large Print. 

Untouchable, by Jayne Ann Krentz. This is the wrap-up of Krentz's Cutler, Sutter & Salinas trilogy, following 2016's When All The Girls Have Gone and 2017's Promise Not To Tell. FBI consultant Jack Lancaster has always been drawn to the coldest of cold cases. A survivor of a fire himself, he finds himself with a unique perspective on arson cases in particular. But the more cases he solves, the closer he slips toward darkness. His salvation is meditation therapist Winter Meadows, who can manage to lead him back toward the light when his thoughts are at their darkest. As long as Quinton Zane is alive, though, Jack will never have peace, and so the battle begins. Also available in Large Print.

The Best of Us, by Robyn Carr. Latest in Carr's Sullivan's Crossing series, after 2018's The Family Gathering, finds Dr. Leigh Culver enjoying the slower pace of practicing medicine in Timberlake, Colorado after her years in Chicago. The only drawback is that she misses her aunt Helen, who raised Leigh, but perhaps the gorgeous mountain views will entice Helen to visit often? Neither of them expected to miss one another so much, though, and Helen never thought she'd fall for a place like Sullivan's Crossing, but that's just the beginning of what happens upon her first fateful visit. Also available in Large Print.