Sheriff Walt Fleming, Sun Valley, ID #2Audio read by Christopher Lane
Brilliance Audio, 2008
8 unabridged cds
9 hrs.
HC 340 pgs.
Rating: 3.5
The setting was in multiple blizzards in the mountains of Colorado where the rich go to ski and have multi-million dollar homes. Since I love snow so much (not) even reading about it puts me into a dark mood. So I wasn't crazy about the setting. The protagonist, Walt Fleming, I liked.
Walt and two veterinary friends, brothers Randy and Mark Akers, go together up a nearby mountain during a blizzard to look for a possible lost skiier. A gunshot is heard, and Randy is dead. Then Mark disappears, a young girls is drugged and raped, and low-level radioactivity is found in some water. Local ranchers are keeping mysteriously quiet about dead sheep, and there's a rogue group of nutsos called the Samarands that are trying to terrorize the country for their own agenda. Throw in a glider airplane, two young twin daughters caught between a somewhat-nutty mother and an overworked dad, and there's the story....pretty much. It was interesting, but drawn out in places and rushed through in others. Oh well.
I consider Ridley Pearson a pretty decent storyteller. I met him once - at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale when he and Dave Barry covered me in squirting Coke while trying to do a science experiment while talking up their book of that name. He was a really nice guy.
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