When a skier goes missing at Sun Valley's Galena Summit, Sheriff Walt Fleming quickly assembles his crack Search and Rescue team and heads out into the snowy night. Despite the treacherous conditions, Walt and his group, including deputy Tommy Brandon and Walt's best friend, Mark Aker, set off on skis, accompanied by highly trained search dogs. Within minutes, something goes horribly wrong: one of their team is dead. By morning, Mark Aker has disappeared.
Torn between professional responsibility and the desperate urge to find his friend, Walt is further challenged by an unexplained illness at a local water-bottling plant that sends workers to the hospital and sets off biohazard warnings. Following threads of questionable evidence through the glitter of Sun Valley leads Walt to an unlikely?and darker?source, and reveals a crime played out on a much larger scale than he originally envisioned. Waist-deep in snow and knee-deep in lies, the life of his friend in the balance, Walt begins to suspect that the whole operation is controlled by people of great wealth and power, which leaves him where he started: out in the cold.
From adrenaline-charged start to explosive finish, Killer View is heart-stopping suspense at its very best.

"A terrific villain, an appealing protagonist, and breakneck pacing. Ridley Pearson writes thrillers, the kind that try to yank you to the edge of your seat and keep you there." ?Boston Sunday Globe
"Ridley Pearson writes thrillers, the kind that try to yank you to the edge of your seat and keep you there." ?Boston Sunday Globe

Sun Valley Sheriff Walt Fleming's wife has left him and their young twin daughters and taken up with his best deputy. Then his friend Mark, a veterinarian, goes missing; Mark's assistant is horribly assaulted; and his brother is murdered. It becomes apparent that a conspiracy involving radiation poisoning is involved. Picking up on cues in the text (a twang, an annoying speech habit, an injured mouth), Christopher Lane individualizes characters and keeps things moving while stressing the unflappability of Fleming and the beauty of the Idaho scenery. He is also sensitive to the edgy relationship developing between the sheriff and his female crime-scene photographer. Some scenes--such as hiding in a cave with a hibernating bear--stretch the credibility, but Lane just makes the most of them. J.B.G. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

 

Ridley Pearson is the award-winning coauthor, along with Dave Barry, of Peter and the Starcatchers, Peter and the Shadow Thieves, and Peter and the Secret of Rundoon. He has also written more than twenty best-selling novels, including Killer Weekend, and the young-adult fantasy The Kingdom Keepers. He was the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at Oxford University.

Killer View by Ridley Pearson
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