6 Rainier Drive Book Review

6 Rainier Drive (Cedar Cove) by Debbie Macomber is the 6th book in the Cedar Cove series.  I was excited to start this one after finishing the last one.  I seem to have the problem now that I am starting (or even reading the whole book) before I write the review and then writing it later and trying to not give away the ending because I already know!  I think that I need to start the review about the book when I first start the book so that I don't give away the end :)

6 Rainier Drive is the address for Seth and Justine Gunderson who are the owners of the Lighthouse Restaurant that was burned down and they were trying to find answers.  The couple was going through a hard time adjusting to life without the schedule that they were keeping at the restaurant and dealing with the emotions that someone set the fire intentionally.  The main suspect was one of the high school students, Anson, who was fired over missing money from the cash box at the restaurant.  Anson had disappeared on the night of the fire and the last person to see him was Allison Cox, his girlfriend.  She continued to believe that he couldn't have done it but the police still had him as a person of interest.  The evidence piled up because he came to her smelling like smoke, disappeared the night of the fire and then his cross was found at the scene.

There are so many other people in Cedar Cove with exciting events going on in their lives.  Maryellen Bowman was on bed rest so was left to sleep on the sofa during the last five months of her pregnancy.  Her husband, Jon, is a photographer who also made extra money working at the Lighthouse Restaurant.  When that burned down, the family was struggling even more to make ends meet since Maryellen had to quit her job at the studio.  Jon's estranged parents came to help around the house when Jon had to take on another job during the day and there was no one to watch Katie, their three year old daughter.  Jon left during the hours that his parents were at the house and they lived at a hotel in town but Maryellen and Katie really enjoyed having them around.  Maryellen's mother, Grace, was working on her relationship with her new husband, Cliff but still find time to come out to visit Maryellen three times a week when she wasn't working at the town library.  Cliff was a kind man and did what he did to help out like sending out her hair and nail people to give her a haircut and do her nails since she couldn't leave the house.  They also hired cleaners and sent food over as often as possible.  There are so many other things going on in this book so you better pick it up to find out what your favorite characters are up to!!

I hope that you have taken my reviews seriously and picked up one of these books (if not I am sure you are sick of the reviews but stay tuned because I plan on getting through the whole series).  I love to start at the beginning of the series and work my way through and this one is really easy because it starts with the first number of the house and it goes through so the first book was 16 (using the "1" to signify the first book), the second was 204 , third was 311, fourth was 44, and fifth was 50.  It is easy to pick the next one off the shelf because you just pick the one with the next number!!  I hope that you have taken my advice and picked up one but if not, this is the time to visit your local library or bookstore and pick one up!!  I promise that you won't be disappointed in these fast paced novels which leave you feeling like you are a part of the town.