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Here are some early Amazon reviews for Dear Josephine, the second book of The Steep Climes Quartet:
The second installment of The Steep Climes turns up the heat on the Berkshire residents introduced in “Kill Well.” Their daily hustle to make ends meet forms the deceptively calm eye of a gathering storm involving oligarch-stalking assassins, Cat 5 hurricanes and oil-financed think tanks bamboozling voters and Congress with insidiously calibrated disinformation.
Divorce-scarred Davin Caine is in his mid-60s now, still clinging to old dreams amid the chaos. Necessity has turned his beloved home into a revolving-door BNB, and his garden is getting more attention than his art studio. A growing circle of professional relationships offers the prospect of hard-earned stability, but is unwittingly drawing him closer to a cadre of Bad Actors whose attention is dangerous to attract.
Parallel plotlines serve up tasty examples of Bad Acting. Tech-savvy paranoids clash with high-stakes dark money operatives, bloodthirsty political activists and the FBI, leaving a trail of burner phones and dead bodies in their wake. Fans of the suspense-thriller action that propelled “Kill Well” will find plenty of satisfaction here. Read that book before devouring this one.
5.0 out of 5 stars Forecast: Instability, with a chance of getting your face caved in
Ludix, Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2025
Loved this, the second book in a projected quartet! It get into the nitty gritty of life in a climate changed near (very near) future—plenty of catastrophe but not in the apocalyptic manner of most books in this genre: it feels personal in the way it renders what ordinary life might come to feel like before too long. The plot is driven by an entertaining mashup of noir-ish procedural and psychological narrative. It gets inside the heads of a wide range of characters, including fossil fuel flaks, newspaper publishers, climate activists and researchers, and divorced suburban homeowners at loose ends, not to mention a killer with a meticulous plan to even the score with corporate oligarchs. The book’s strength is in all these alternating perspectives. Very enjoyable!
5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining and informative read!
The Great Dainty, Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2025
This novel pulls off a difficult feat–it describes the real life near term impact from environmental changes while delving into the ruthless steps bad actors will take either to preserve the status quo or to strike out for what they see as justice. The action scenes are compelling, convincingly detailed, wholly believable, and not like anything else I’ve come across. Other chapters focus on one particular family and their network. The interpersonal interactions and detail are really well realized. “Kill Well”, the first book, shares these characteristics. A good read–someone should option these for a film!
5.0 out of 5 stars “Dear Josephine” is a great read and would make a great screenplay
Mike, Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2025