Blood
Island
A
Matt Royal Mystery
H.
Terrell Griffin
Oceanview
Publishing (Hardcover)
ISBN-10: 1-933515-21-X (193351521X)
ISBN-13: 978-1-933515-21-2 (9781933515212)
Publication Date: December 2008
List Price: $24.95
Synopsis (from
the publisher): Matt Royal never has to look far for excitement.
Excitement -- and sometimes trouble -- has a way of finding him first.
But for this fun-loving lawyer turned beach bum, things are about to
get serious. Dead serious.
When his ex-wife asks for help in tracking down her stepdaughter, last
seen in Matt’s hometown of Longboat Key, Matt agrees to do a
little searching.
But what looks like the case of one missing girl turns out to be
something much bigger -- and much more dangerous.
Enlisting the aid of his buddies Jock Algren and Logan Hamilton, Matt
launches a full-speed-ahead search that leads from Longboat Key to Key
West to an ominous strip of land called Blood Island.
But this is no island paradise. Blood Island is home base to a cult of
religious zealots. And they’re making devastating plans that
could change the world forever.
Bullets fly, and as the clock ticks down, it will be up to Matt to make
sure that what happens on Blood Island stays on Blood Island.
Review:
Matt Royal follows the trail of his ex-wife's missing stepdaughter
Peggy to a mysterious island in the south Florida keys in Blood Island,
the third mystery in this series by H. Terrell Griffin.
Matt's initial inquiries into the girl's disappearance are met with a
surprising response: someone tries to kill him. Rather than being a
deterrent, it prompts the opposite response from Matt. Nothing short of
putting him six feet under is going to stop him now. Everything he
learns seems to point to Key West as the key (as it were) to solving
the mystery. He heads there undercover and soon locates Peggy on an
isolated private island with a storied history, Blood Island. But
before he can get her to safety, she tells him of a mysterious plot to
blow people up, and that the island's owner is behind it. In a race
against time, Matt uses every resource available to stop what may be
start of the next world war.
Readers who seek fast and furious action in their mysteries need look
no further than Blood Island.
A cozy it most certainly is not. Matt is a fearless protagonist, but
also strategic. He knows when he needs help and his buddies are willing
and able to be there when he calls. Somewhat ironically, though, the
plot is at its strongest when Matt is on his own in Key West searching
for Peggy. It's here that the disparate pieces to the puzzle start to
come together and the narrative is more foreboding and atmospheric.
Still, the relentless pace and ever increasing body count don't quite
disguise the occasional lapse in logic, but that's almost certainly not
the primary objective of Blood Island.
For a mystery that means to entertain its reader, it does that and more
in spades.
Special thanks to Oceanview Publishing for providing a copy of Blood Island for this review.
Review Copyright © 2009 — Hidden Staircase Mystery Books — All Rights Reserved
Have you read Blood Island? How would you rate it?
Mysteries in this series …
Longboat
Blues
Tangerine Press (Hardcover), November 2005
ISBN-10: 0-9774047-0-6 (0977404706)
ISBN-13: 978-0-9774047-0-4 (9780977404704)
Murder
Key
Tangerine Press (Hardcover), November 2006
ISBN-10: 0-9774047-1-4 (0977404714)
ISBN-13: 978-0-9774047-1-1 (9780977404711)
Blood Island
Oceanview Publishing (Hardcover), December 2008
ISBN-10: 1-933515-21-X (193351521X)
ISBN-13: 978-1-933515-21-2 (9781933515212)
Wyatt's Revenge
Oceanview Publishing (Hardcover), November 2009
ISBN-10: 1-933515-53-8 (1933515538)
ISBN-13: 978-1-933515-53-3 (9781933515533)
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Location(s) referenced: Sanibel Island, Key
West, Florida.
