Dead Aim

Rating:
Summary: a savvy mystery, with strong writing
Review: Anne Woodward has a slick style, with strong characters. This books is a super read, showing great promise as a rising writer. Dr. Richard Dornier was used to tracking Grizzly Bears in Montana. Now he has to track another "prey", his missing little sister. Raised apart, he hardly knew Tina, but blood was blood. When she goes missing, he's hot on her trail. Since she was a college student, the police do not take her absence as anything out of the ordinary, especially since she was spotted with handsome lad at a local nightspot, came home and packed her belongings. They believe she's just off for a hot time with a new boyfriend. But Rich knows his sister well enough to know that is not the case.

When he picks up the threads, following Tina's trail, he runs into Maggie Mann, a manager of the local coffee shop near the campus. She knew Tina, but her sharp observations screams something other than coffee shop manager to Rich. Maggie joins him in the quest for the missing student, and it soon becomes apparent both Rich and Maggie will have to fight their attraction to each, to keep focused on unraveling the mystery of Tina's disappearance.

If this book is level Woodward always writers at, she is a writer to watch.

Rating:
Summary: very savvy mystery
Review: Anne Woodward has a slick style, with strong characters. This books is a super read, showing great promise as a rising writer. Dr. Richard Dornier was used to tracking Grizzly Bears in Montana. Now he has to track another "prey", his missing little sister. Raised apart, he hardly knew Tina, but blood was blood. When she goes missing, he's hot on her trail. Since she was a college student, the police do not take her absence as anything out of the ordinary, especially since she was spotted with handsome lad at a local nightspot, came home and packed her belongings. They believe she's just off for a hot time with a new boyfriend. But Rich knows his sister well enough to know that is not the case.

When he picks up the threads, following Tina's trail, he runs into Maggie Mann, a manager of the local coffee shop near the campus. She knew Tina, but her sharp observations screams something other than coffee shop manager to Rich. Maggie joins him in the quest for the missing student, and it soon becomes apparent both Rich and Maggie will have to fight their attraction to each, to keep focused on unraveling the mystery of Tina's disappearance.

If this book is level Woodward always writers at, she is a writer to watch.