Dead Time by Stephen White is the most recent entry in the Dr. Alan Gregory series, and let me be the first to tell you that White is back on his game.
Alan and his wife Lauren are struggling to cope with all of the revelations from the previous book, Dry Ice, as well as their new adopted son.
Lauren and Grace, their daughter, go to the Netherlands to find the daughter Lauren put up for adoption years before.
Jonas, the new son, is going to spend a few weeks with his mother's relatives in New York, so Alan takes an apartment in NYC to be near him.
Merideth, Alan's ex, calls Alan and asks him to investigate the disappearance of the surrogate she's hired to carry her baby.
There are multiple storylines that weave in and out of each other, but White handles them all with style.
Sam and Alan's relationship is unsteady after the events of the previous book, and through their detective work, they come to a new and deeper friendship.
White's books about Alan were starting to get a little stale as he and Lauren were a little too happy, and nearly every book involved some kind of danger for Lauren and Grace.
While I wasn't thrilled with Dry Ice, it should be seen as a pivotal book in this series, because it's turned everything around.
Alan is no longer predictable, flirting with alcoholism and infidelity, and even Lauren is hiding some secrets.
The series suddenly seems fresh and full of possibility.
Too bad I have to wait another year to find out what's going to happen next.
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