And Still I Rise

I just finished reading Sidney Sheldon's latest and am wondering what happened to the man who brought us "The Other Side Of Midnight","Rage of Angels","If Tomorrow Comes" etc.This one is about four people who die violently and mysteriously in four cities across the world.Tying them together is the fact that they all worked for an environmental think tank-Kingsley International Group.Two of the widows are drawn together to find out the truth about their husbands' demise and find themselves in situation where they are fleeing for their lives as they unearth a conspiracy that robbed them of the men they loved.

Sounds okay so far,right? But even though the book starts out quite promising it quickly became too much like a soap opera.Personally,I found the characters to be very weak and uninteresting and even though it is fictional some of their escapes were just too good to be true.Definitely,not Sidney Sheldon at his best but I suppose its passable as light entertainment and not the usually gripping stuff of some of his previous books.To be honest the last set of books I read by him were not that good but I keep going back hoping he will redeem himself.Come on Mr Sheldon,more books like "The Other side of Midnight".