Review: Shadow Girl by Gerry Schmitt

Title:Shadow Girl

Author:Gerry Schmitt

Series:Afton Tangler Thriller, #2

Published:August 2017, Berkley Books

Format:ARC Paperback, 336 pages

Source:Author

The brutal murder of a
business tycoon leaves Afton Tangler and the Twin Cities reeling, but
that s just the beginning of a gruesome crime spree…

 
Leland
Odin made his fortune launching a home shopping network, but his
millions can t save his life. On the list for a transplant, the ailing
businessman sees all hope lost when the helicopter carrying his donor
heart is shot out of the sky. 

Now with two pilots dead and dozens
injured, Afton Tangler, family liaison officer for the Minneapolis
Police Department, is drawn into the case. As she and her partner
investigate family members and business associates, whoever wants Leland
dead strikes again and succeeds in a brazen hospital room attack. 

The supposedly squeaky clean millionaire has crossed the wrong person
and she s not finished exacting her revenge. The case explodes into an
international conspiracy of unbridled greed and violence. And as Afton
gets closer to unearthing the mastermind behind it, she gets closer to
becoming collateral damage…

My thoughts:This is the second book in Gerry Schmitt’s Afton Tangler Thriller series and I was so excited to get my hands on it. I loved the first book in this series, Little Girl Gone, and I couldn’t wait to see where this series would go next. I already read a few series from Laura Childs, the pseudonym that Gerry writes under – but those fall under the cozy mystery genre. This series is more police procedural/thriller and I love it!!!

Once again, as in the first book, we find out pretty quickly who did the crime in the book, so the big mystery is more about why they did it. Of course, the cops take a bit longer in finding out the who…but once they do, they also spend most of their time trying to figure out the why. I find this to be quite an interesting take on this series – it’s quite the puzzler!!! And it was so much fun trying to guess as to what was going on and why!

As this was the second book in this series, we are still getting to know our main character, Afton Tangler. I really like her! She’s the family liaison officer for the police department, but desperately wants to be a detective. She works alongside Detective Max Montgomery and often acts as his partner. She is many times fearless, takes chances that she really shouldn’t, often acting before thinking but many times gets results. While not officially partners, they do make a good pair!

This book was filled with non-stop action almost from the start and will keep you flipping the pages to see how it all plays out. I am really enjoying this series and cannot wait to see what happened in the next book!

Books in this series:

1. Little Girl Gone
2. Shadow Girl