Shadow Girl: An Afton
Tangler Thriller No. 2. Gerry Schmitt. Penguin Publishing Group. August 2017.
320 pp. ISBN #: 9780425281789.
This
old-fashioned mystery opens with the reader discovering that a woman packs a
long-range missile and proceeds to calmly shoot down a helicopter, an act that
not only obviously kills the pilot and his assistant but also causes numerous
injuries when the pieces fall on the streets of Minneapolis. What’s more important, however, is that the helicopter
was carrying a brand-new heart that was supposed to be put into Leland Odin,
the magnate owner of a home shopping network. Without it, Leland’s hours to
live are dwindling rapidly!
Afton
Tangler is the family liaison officer for the Minneapolis Police
Department. She and her partner proceed
to investigate what starts as a crash and then evolves into a murder. The pace is quick and the number of suspects
grows with each turned page. Is it the
wife who seems normally concerned about this event but whose responses occasionally
seem contrived? Is it the strangely
unconcerned daughter whose middle name could be “Frosty?’ Perhaps Leland’s
partner, Bart, who is courting a buy-out of another home shopping network, has
bigger plans that just might not include Leland?
While
we discover who is the perpetrator half-way through the novel, that doesn’t
spoil anything as more murders and a truly exciting search and find mission
keep the reader’s adrenaline pumping.
Add to that we want to know the why of the crime as well as how it will
all evolve!
There’s
an international espionage component to this story and it turns out that Afton
Tangler is one hell of a great investigator, a fact that just might wind up
with her being moved officially into the Police Department, that is if she survives
being a target as she and her partner get closer to the enemy!!!
Fine,
fine mystery that is a great read!!!! Highly recommended!
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