I've loved so many of Karen White's books and I liked this one. Again, she makes me want to jump in my car and drive to the beach. Her descriptions of the sights, sounds and smells of the low country transport me there every time.
Color of Light is the story of Jillian who returns to her favorite summer spot after a long absence. She is the product of a dysfunctional childhood and has grown up with those scars not allowing her to be happy. After her husband cheats on her because she was completely unavailable throughout their marriage she and her daughter Grace escape to the former home of her grandmother. She has been able to purchase the home at a bargain price. Her daughter has an imaginary friend that just happens to share the name of a missing teenage friend of Jillian's. Once at her grandmother's home Jillian re-connects with people she remembers from spending summers with her grandmother. She re-connects with Linc who was the boyfriend of the missing girl and the prime suspect. Together Linc and Jillian and Grace put together what happened to Lauren and in the process find what they both have been missing for so long.
I liked this book but it's definitely more like a romance novel than true mystery. I didn't enjoy this story as much as On Folly Beach or the Tradd Street novels...which I can't wait for the next installment.
