Sheriff Lucian Wing goes to the aid of a pair of young runaways, Duncan and Pamela, who have fled to his backwoods county jurisdiction in Vermont. The girl's powerful stepfather New York has set a smoothly menacing lawyer and well-armed thugs on their trail.
At the same time Wing must deal with his wayward wife's chronic infidelity; the snobbery of Pamela's cosmopolitan mother; the dubious assistance of a demented World War Two enthusiast - and even the climactic, chaotic onset of a prodigious specimen of the local wildlife.
Amidst it all, can Wing bring Duncan and Pamela to safety?***
Nine - no, ten - vehicles were parked in front of Kruger's, on the grass, in the road, around back in the lane; two deputies, four Staties, including a command car, two ambulances, the Cardiff Fire Department's second-best pumper, and a line truck from the telephone company. 1, THE DE-ESCALATION OF RHUMBA
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(Farrago, 10 December 2020, 145 pages, ebook, #ARC from the publisher and voluntarily reviewed, #BlogTour 18 December via @RandomTTours)
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This is my first time reading the author. This is the third book in a series, and I might check out the other books. I was surprised by how short the books is, given how much it happens. I'm used to read suspense novels that are a lot longer. The author packs a lot into such scant pages. I got a real sense of characters and place, a small town in the middle of nowhere where everyone looks out for everyone else and they do things their own way. I liked Wing as a character. He clearly cares about his job. This is a good suspense novel if a little thin.
