SECRETS
By Frederick Ramsay
ISBN: 1590581881By Frederick Ramsay
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 a couple of things make a big
difference, every time the novel starts to drift into the ho hum. 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.
From Amazon: Dr. Frederick Ramsay was born in Baltimore. He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University and received his doctorate in Anatomy from the University of Illinois.
Carl Brookins
www.carlbrookins.com http://agora2.blogspot.com,
Case of the Great Train Robbery, Reunion, Red Sky
Submitted by Gerrie Ferris Finger
THE END GAME
THE LAST TEMPTATION
THE DEVIL LAUGHED, August 2013
THE END GAME
THE LAST TEMPTATION
THE DEVIL LAUGHED, August 2013
