Ricochet
A Sheila Carpenter
Mystery
P. M. Terrell
Paralee Press (Trade Paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-9785632-0-4 (0978563204)
ISBN-13: 978-0-9785632-0-2 (9780978563202)
Publication Date: September 2006
List Price: $14.95
Synopsis (from the publisher): FBI Agent Sheila Carpenter is attending the Academy in Quantico, Virginia when she discovers information concerning a secret journey her mother made just days before her parents' deaths. Convinced her parents were murdered and vowing to find the killer, she retraces her mother's last steps, taking her on a hair-raising adventure leading to stolen identities, illegal immigration and an explosive ending that will leave you on the edge of your seat!
Review:
Ricochet
is the second thriller by P. M. Terrell to feature computer expert
Sheila Carpenter. The book opens with Sheila, armed with her degree in
computer programming from Vanderbilt University, preparing to enter the
Federal Bureau of Investigation training program at Quantico VA. She is
a brilliant woman and very self-assured, to a point just short of
arrogance. Soon after she starts her training she takes a day off to
meet a friend at the local mall. This is where her nightmare begins. As
they prepare to have lunch in the overcrowded food court, Sheila
witnesses, and is hurt by, a terrorist suicide bombing.
While recuperating in the hospital, her aunt brings her pictures and
hand-written notes of her mother’s last days before her
sudden death. She leaves the hospital without telling anyone and
embarks on the violent and secret journey that her mother had started
but never finished. She runs into unknown men dealing in drugs, a woman
in red who helps Sheila find her way when she is lost, and men and
women who are experts in the art of forging documents for the purpose
identity theft and illegal immigration. Terrorists and sleeper cells
also become a threat for Sheila. She searches out all these criminals
and while doing so they are searching for her, too.
Ricochet
is written in the first person allowing Sheila to tell of her exploits
in her own words. The image formed in the reader’s mind is of
a woman who is a cross between Wonder Woman and the Bionic Woman. In
contrast to these superheroes, however, Sheila has little
regard for Quantico’s rules and regulations or the orders
from her superiors. As befits the title, she ricochets across the
country as she flits from one problem to another without any clear
objective in mind. Both the criminals and her own people
can’t figure out what she is going to do next.
Ricochet
is a fast paced story and with each turn of the page the reader wonders
what rule Sheila will break, or which criminal she is getting closer to
and which one is getting closer to her. As we are now living with the
threat of terrorism, sleeper cells, drug use, illegal immigration, and
stolen identities, it is also a very topical book as it involves the
stories we read in the papers daily.
Special thanks to guest reviewer Betty of The Betz Review for contributing her review of Ricochet and to Author Marketing Experts for providing a copy of the book for this
review.
Review Copyright © 2007 — Hidden Staircase Mystery Books — All Rights Reserved
Mysteries in this series ...
Kickback
Drake Valley Press (Trade Paperback), 2002
ISBN-10: 0-9728186-1-8 (0972818618)
Ricochet
Paralee Press (Trade Paperback), 2006
ISBN-10: 0-9785632-0-4 (0978563204)
ISBN-13: 978-0-9785632-0-2 (9780978563202)
Omnimystery keywords for Ricochet ...
Location(s) referenced: Virginia.
