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The Paper Detective

The Paper Detective

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An Icy Adventure
Review: Paisley Sterling is back in her most exciting adventure to date. When her daughter Cassie buys her a used laptop to replace the one she lost in her last adventure, she discovers that the previous owner didn't entirely clean it out and there were intriguing letters left on it. Adapting some phrases from the letter, she writes her latest mystery using the pen name of Leonard Paisley, since her publisher contends that people don't want hard-boiled mysteries written by a middle-aged woman who used to write children's novels. But now Pen and Ink magazine wants to do a feature story on Leonard and she has to find a Leonard. She decides that the former police chief of a neighboring county, Bert Atkins, who had taken early retirement after being shot, would be the perfect Leonard and since his stepson was the new chief and was dating her daughter she figured she had a good chance of talking him into it. He agrees to impersonate Leonard and they go to Nashville where the interview goes well, with the exception of Paisley getting jealous of the reporter flirting with "Leonard". But a few days after they return home, Bert calls Paisley with the news that someone tried to kill him and asks her what she has done. Paisley begins to investigate what is going on and quickly finds herself under attack from a militia group, rogue soldiers and her traitorous heart, as she battles her growing attraction to Bert.

When she tries to infiltrate the militia camp to gather evidence, she realizes that she is in over her head and ends up in a desperate race for her life across a snow covered, bitterly cold Kentucky forest. She soon finds that the only thing standing between thousands of people dying in a terrorist attack and the terrorist is her.

With plenty of action that races across the page at breakneck speed, this is a breathtaking look at the side effects of the new, scary world that we find ourselves living in now. Sims takes the peaceful backdrop of a snowy Kentucky countryside and adds an element of terror that seems worse in such a setting and highlights the fact that terror can strike anywhere, not just big cities. You will be staying up all night to finish this roller coaster ride.


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