Thank you, Carl, for so graciously sharing another review here. I would be so lost without my friends who are so willing to share blog material, especially now.
By Frederick Ramsay
ISBN: 1590581881
Poisoned Pen Press, August 2005
290 pgs
Small town, male sheriff protagonist, religious
murder with
larger implications
The sheriff, Ike Schwartz, has retired from the
world stage
of law enforcement. He likes this small town of Picketsville where
most of his
time is spent smoozing with the citizens and dealing with the
administration of
his small department.
The characters in his department are close to
being clichés.
And we have a classic town vs. gown dance. But every time the novel starts to drift into the ho-hum, a couple of things
make a big
difference.
First, there
is Samantha Ryder, a slick, leggy and very bright computer wizard
who not only
towers over the sheriff in height, but her understanding of the
use of
computers in law enforcement even in this small municipality, is
becoming
legendary. That’s particularly true with the sheriff who sometimes
can’t find
the power switch on the things.
Then there’s the local college
president. There’s
no denying the attraction between the highly educated,
sophisticated president
of Callend College and the sheriff, even if an observer might be
hard pressed
to figure out why. But they don’t really care, except that Sheriff
Ike seems to
have a predilection for tossing barbed comments at her faculty on
frequent
occasions. It keeps the relationship fresh.
Then Waldo gets murdered. Now here’s a quiet
inoffensive
not-very-talented church organist. Who’d want to kill him? And in
the very
place he works of a Sunday, the Stonewall Jackson Memorial
Episcopalian Church.
And why did some people think he was a little creepy? Not only
that it’s a
double tap. That is, twice shot, once dead.
The solutions will amaze and satisfy you in
this crisply
written novel.
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Carl Brookins www.carlbrookins.com BLOG: http://agora2.blogspot.com -BOOKS: Case of the Great Train Robbery, Reunion, Red Sky
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Carl Brookins www.carlbrookins.com BLOG: http://agora2.blogspot.com -BOOKS: Case of the Great Train Robbery, Reunion, Red Sky
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