Killer View (Walt Fleming)
by Ridley Pearson
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Book Reviews of Killer View (Walt Fleming)
Book Review: The suspense novel has the silver screen written all over it!
Summary: 4 Stars
Ridley Pearson has written an intelligent suspense novel that has the silver screen written all over it. Fast-paced and action-packed, it's a page-turner.
Blaine County Sheriff Walt Fleming, with his office in Hailey, Idaho, south of super-rich Sun Valley/Ketchum, has his hands full investigating a series of baffling events.
Not only are the sheep dying but there's a murder. a monster avalanche, a rape, a kidnapping, and a vicious onslaught by a wounded, enraged bear.
Fleming's life is further complicated by an impending a divorce from his estranged wife Gail, who is having an affair with Tommy Brandom, whom Fleming considers to be his best deputy.
East of Hailey, the Idaho National Laboratory, an ultra-secret government facility, may be harboring a deadly secret, with powerful men engaged in a cover-up.
Added to this volatile mix are the Sammakinn (from a Blackfoot word meaning "long knife"), an extremist group of wannabe domestic terrorists, part Ted Kaczynski, part Aryan Nation.
Fleming is taken aback when he learns he has everything wrong, but with dogged persistence he plods on in this complex police procedural, finally uncovering the villain's identity.
The action takes place in the brutal snow of an Idahoan winter, in which one must overcome both the attack of a ruthless killer and the assault of unforgiving elements.
Ridley Pearson is the author of more than twenty novels, including the New York Times bestseller Killer Weekend; the Lou Boldt crime series; and many books for young readers. He lives with his wife and two daughters, dividing their time between Missouri and Idaho.
Book Review: one sitting police procedural
Summary: 5 Stars
A skier goes missing on Galena Summit, Idaho. In spite of the snowstorm making conditions treacherous even for experienced individuals, Blaine County Sheriff Walt Fleming bring together his Search and Reduce team to make a concerted effort to find the lost skier. However, during the dangerous trek, a shot is heard and they find crewman Randy Aker dead.
Not long afterward, Randy's brother and fellow S&R member veterinarian Mark Aker disappears; though his best friend Walt worries about him he assumes his buddy needs some alone grieving time. However, Walt revises his assumptions when an unknown adversary molests a veterinary assistant and there is a major increase of sick employees at a water-bottling plant and numerous animals reported dead. He begins to wonder if someone is slowly and diabolcially cleverly working a terrorist campaign in Sun Valley.
This one sitting police procedural will hook the audience from the onset with a need to know what is going on as the plot twists plausibly with every new incident or clue that Walt encounters. The story line is fast-paced and filled with a strong cast. The setting is electric; the Sun Valley area comes across beyond its geographical beauty as a two caste social system symbiotic tied togetehr economically. Ridley Pearson provides a strong Idaho mystery as readers get a KILLER VIEW of Sun Valley.
Harriet Klausner
Book Review: Nice views, unbelievable action
Summary: 2 Stars
As a travelogue of the nice Sun Valley area, this is a readable book. The plot is far-fetched, but works, with a few unbelievable parts thrown in. Sheriff Fleming's personality, for example. In one place after another, the author emphasizes how Walt has learned to not react quickly to situations, to be calm. But when he gets a phone call about his wife and children, nothing terribly bad, he throws his phone across the living room, breaking the glass in the window! There is also the unbelievable recovery of his deputy sheriff, badly wounded on Tuesday, shot, with an exit wound in his shoulder the size of a golf ball, blood spurting out, and the next day the same plucky deputy going with Walt on a hard outing up in the mountains. Added to this is the description of the sheriff riding a glider up into the mountains, it getting pitch dark, and managing to land the glider in a small snowy meadow area near the cabin holding the villain. This guy is something. But the story does end, and while we don't know much more about Walt's possible relationship with Fiona, looks like we'll know more when the next Pearson book comes out.Book Review: Frozen Quest
Summary: 4 Stars
Sun Valley Sheriff Walt Fleming faces a formidable task in this sequel novel. Not only must he fight the elements of the natural environment, face the deterioration of his marriage, work with a valued deputy bedding Walt's soon-to-be ex-wife, solve acts of terrorism but also solve a murder, rescue a friend and perform all sort of social good deeds, not to mention running for reelection. How's that for a plot?
The story is a real thriller, from the chase of the villains to the travails of the storms and the environment. The pacing is quick and sure, and the descriptions of Sun Valley and the Idaho landscape (it is home to the author) vivid.
Recommended.
Book Review: A Non-Stop Roller Coaster Ride
Summary: 5 Stars
Killer View is the second in his series featuring Sun Valley Sheriff Walt Flemming and if you're a fan of seat of your pants non-stop action then this book is for you.
It deals with home grown terrorists dealing in bio-warfare, government bureaucracy and hidden agendas. In addition to everything else going on our hero Sheriff Flemming is trying to deal with his personal life as a single dad with twin girls who's wife left him for his best deputy (we found this out in the first book Killer Weekend). So those of you who just like to stroll through the pages of non-exciting books this is not for you for the rest of you get off the couch and get the book.