Reviewer Mary Lignor: Mary is a retired librarian, originally from Connecticut but now living in New Mexico. All her life Mary has loved books and has passed this love on to her daughters. Mary started working in a library when her children were young as an Assistant Librarian and ended up as its Director. Her favorite books are suspense, political intrigue and anything involving the World War II era.
A good read with many strong characters and descriptions of Stock Car racing.
Author:
Jim Overturf
ISBN: 978-1-4401-3983-3
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A good read with
many strong characters and descriptions of Stock Car racing.
The
main character Kurt Maxxon is a former USMC fighter pilot who is now
racing stock cars and owns an auto parts store in Nebraska.
Kurt is a widower whose life of racing and taking care of his new
puppy, Beau, is shattered by the death of a local race car driver
Rusty Gallegar who was murdered in his garage at the track.
Gallegar turned out to be a very busy guy with the ladies. His
current lady friend, Alisa Sharpe, is soon arrested for his murder as
Rusty had thrown her out a week before. The evidence against
her seems to be iron clad but a friend of Kurts who works at the
local newspaper along with Alisa is sure that she is innocent and he
asks Kurt if he would see her and try to help her. Kurt does
visit Alisa in jail and comes to the conclusion that she is not
guilty and decides to start his own investigation to prove her
innocence. Kurt finds that Rusty was about to sell his auto
body shop and silently leave the area, evidently sneaking away with a
woman. Kurt, in his investigation, finds quite a few women who
were trading favors to Rusty so he would fix their cars that they had
wrecked; defraud the insurance companies; and, keep the repair work
from their husbands.
This book keeps you busy with the
secrets and rumors of this small Nebraska town and has a bit of
everything including love, hate, jealousy and revenge that circle
Kurt Maxxon as he tries to make sense of the information that he has
gathered to find out who killed Rusty.
I really liked
this book. It is a real find for mystery fans. I
especially like the stock car racing sequences as I spent many a
Saturday night when I was younger at the Danbury, CT Speedway proudly
wearing my red and white satin jacket emblazened with "Southern
New York Racing Association" Number 10 on the back. The
author has a very good way with words and a love of dogs, which I
really liked. Mystery lovers and Racing enthusiasts will like
this book. The mystery is not solved until the very last pages
which makes it even better. Enjoy this book. I really
did!!!