Silent Witness
Michael Norman.
Poisoned Pen, May 2008, $24.95
ISBN 9781590584989
In Salt Lake City, police officer Kate McConnell investigates the brutal murder of Arnold Ginsberg and the disappearance of Robin Joiner; they are the eyewitnesses to a failed armored car robbery. Utah Department of Corrections Special Investigations Branch Chief Sam Kincaid joins Kate on her inquiry because the alleged armored robbery gang's leader, Mormon polygamist Walter Bradshaw awaits trial without any witnesses to testify against him.
At the same time as he works on the Bradshaw case, Sam also deals with his former wife filing for custody of their daughter. Still in spite of the distraction in his personal life that tears at his guts, Sam diligently and obstinately works the investigation along side of Kate; both hoping the college student who was snatched remains alive.
SILENT WITNESS, the sequel to (see THE COMMISSION), is an enjoyable Utah police procedural that uses the headlines of the Jett case to tell a strong investigative tale. Kate and Sam are competent cops trying to do the job, which entails rescuing a twentyish college coed while the brass hinders their efforts. Sam’s personal life also intrudes on the investigation, but it is his new CYA boss who makes the inquiry that much more difficult. Michael Norman provides a fine thriller.
Harriet Klausner
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It is a fabulous breakthrough in modern detective story writing.The most striking feature in this literary work is the plot sequence that never loses it suspense in each single chapter.Such mastery of plot could only be achieved by an artist knowledgable about implementation of law and order in real life as well as in the world of immaginatin.Once you begin reading the first chapter, you can never stop till you move to the next.Despite the serious nature of the story, the writer seems to maintain a humorous spirit throughout the novel;thus providing relief for the reader's hankering after violent crime details.The language used to communicate the story's message is ranging from simple day-to-day language to detective and legal .In general, the story seems to me inviting to arouse criticism that will aid in reaching the naked theme undeneath; which is surely not mere literal sequence of crime events.
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