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The Yuletide
doesn’t bring a rash of good will when Greg
and Jill McKenzie are hired to investigate
rumors that something shady is involved in a
deal to bring an NBA basketball team to
Nashville. Their client is the attorney for
a group of Nashville Predators NHL hockey
fans who don’t think there’s room for both
pro hockey and pro basketball. When Greg
goes to meet an informant, he finds him shot
to death. What information did he have that
would “blow your mind?” Things turn deadly
serious when a bomb goes off beneath Greg’s
Jeep. Complicating matters, a disgruntled
felon Greg helped send to prison during his
Air Force career shows up in town with
revenge in mind. The explosive situation
reaches a climax on Christmas Day.
Some Early
Reviews
"Readers of Mr. Campbell’s previous books
will be pleased to be back in his Nashville
with Greg and Jill McKenzie. His writing is
clean and spare, giving us enough sense of
place and character to feel as if we’ve
settled in with friends, and then in turn
ratcheting up the tension and suspense. Greg
McKenzie is not a hard-boiled private
investigator, but he’s tough and smart, well
aware of the qualities Jill brings to the
partnership. The way the case plays out
against the backdrop of their lives gives
them a genuineness that makes the reader
feel these would be good folks to spend an
afternoon with - or to have along in a gun
fight. Once again, Campbell has hit the
mark."
Copyright ©2010 Larry W. Chavis - from
The GenReview
"Christmas,
the NBA, Hockey, a mysterious informant and add murder. Mix
well, with a cunning P.I. and his not so shrinking Violet of a
partner wife and you have a not so cozy mystery. The past comes
calling to bake the mix into a read to tingle the toes of all
the fans Chester D. Campbell. New readers may find the landscape
a bit bare so reading the previous books is suggested. A
Sporting Murder kept this reviewer focused right to the spine
jarring end. Read at your own peril. You might find it hard to
get anything else done."
David Brown, Military Writers Society
of America Reviewer
"This series is cozy mystery's answer
to Dashiell Hammett's Thin Man series. Greg and Jill
McKenzie are a charming couple who complement one another and
work well together. Their interactions are heartwarming and
refreshing and a nice bonus to the story. The plot moves at a
fast pace, offering a mystery readers will be challenged to
solve.
Christy Tillery French, Midwest Book
Reviews
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