Book description
Sam Kincaid and Kate McConnell must once again look beneath the obvious
in an increasingly dangerous scenario. The armored car robbery went
terribly awry, leaving two people dead. One was a member of the gang
believed responsible for the crime. Walter Bradshaw, the 45-year-old
leader of the Reformed Church of the Divine Christ, is charged with
capital murder and aggravated robbery. Bradshaw leads an
arch-conservative, anti-government group of Mormon polygamists who were
once a part of Warren JeffsA[a¬a[ Fundamentalist Church. Captured after
a high-speed chase, Bradshaw currently sits in a cell at the Utah State
Prison, awaiting trial for the armored car fiasco. The rest of the
Bradshaw gang remains at large. Then two days before BradshawA[a¬a[s
preliminary hearing, Arnold Ginsberg, one of two witnesses to the
robbery, is stabbed and bludgeoned to death in a parking garage in
downtown Salt Lake City. That same evening, the second witness, 24-year
old AA University of Utah student Robin Joiner, narrowly escapes being
kidnapped as she walks across campus to her car…. This is the sequel to
The Commission, named one of the best books of 2007 by Publishers
Weekly. Accountant Arnold Ginsberg is murdered just before he is to
appear as a witness against Mormon polygamist Walter Bradshaw, accused
of robbery and murder. Another witness, Robin Joiner, is almost
kidnapped and is now on the run. Salt Lake City homicide detective Kate
McConnell and her boyfriend, Sam Kincaid of the Utah Department of
Corrections Special Investigations, must find Ginsberg's murderer and
locate Robin before she is also killed. In the course of the
investigation, Kate and Sam's romance continues to blossom, and Sam must
deal with disciplining an employee and his wife's attempt to gain
custody of their young daughter. Moving from Sam's point of view to a
broader, third-person perspective, Norman keeps the action moving with
numerous plot twists while also developing his central characters
effectively. This is a fast-paced, suspenseful mystery that will pique
interest in the next installment in the series. MICHAEL NORMAN is a
writer and retired journalism professor who lives in an absolutely
unhaunted house near the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Beth
Scott, who died in early 1994, was full-time freelance writer for more
than thirty-five years.
