The Owl: Scarlet Serenade by Bob ForwardMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
No, the title doesn't specifically refer to the amount of blood splatter in this book, though it might could. If possible, I enjoyed this second installment in the Alexander L'Hiboux/Owl series even more than the first, OWL: JUSTICE NEVER SLEEPS. "Owl" suffers from insomnolence, the inability to ever sleep, and has for the past nine years. He also has no home or vehicle, no permanent address (although his associate does operate an office ostensibly unrelated to the justice vigilante known as Owl). Like another series character, Dexter, Owl targets only the bad and the evil; and in SCARLET SERENADE he takes on some despicable villains, it is true.
Foiling the attempted kidnapping of a sixteen-year-old girl should have been a simple event; stop the abduction, get the girl home, Owl goes on about his life. Not so. He unfortunately does not have the backstory, nor even the current story, and once again he will be on the run for his life. What is new? A very twisty and convoluted plot with some great characters and some evil villains who deserve justice, that's what.
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