A Raging Storm – Richard Castle

A Raging Storm, part 2 of Richard Castle’s 3-part novella detailing the return of his original hero Derrick Storm, picks up where the last one left off, with a dead US senator and Storm and FBI agent April Showers on the case.  The leads take them to London, where an exiled Russian oligarch has taken residence after speaking out against the President of Russia, his former friend.  A few twists and turns later, and we end with Showers shot and Storm having crashed into a country wall.

This eBook works much less effectively as a standalone story.  While Castle tries to bring readers up to speed with what happened previously, I can’t imagine going in to this blind and following the story.  The ending also seemed more like a chapter break than the end of a self-contained story.  But, I guess if you’ve made it this far, they assume you will be sticking around for the final chapter.