One Was A Soldierby Julia Spencer Fleming
End of the series and didn't disappoint. An awfully good mystery, full of twists and turns, suffering and solving, combined with the stories of five veterans and the different problems they brought back from Iraq and Afghanistan. (Missing limbs; prescription drug addiction; short-term memory loss; anger; financial disaster.)
The ending ended sooner than I wanted it to--I wanted to know more about the soldiers' various treatments and struggles to fit back in. But instead she left her soldiers armed with the magic bullets of therapy and time, and we're supposed to think that now they've been able to admit they need help, help will come. In today's mixed up world of medicine, I'm not so sure it's that easy. But we want to hope it is.
She did one thing perfectly--even while wrapping up the loose ends neat-ish-ly, she left three major plot possibilities open for future development, if she were to decide to pick up the story again. And one of those could be a spin-off. I wish it would.
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