Thursday, August 23, 2018

Bad Time to Be In It

A little gritty than my usual cozy, but suspenseful. Bad Time to Be in It by David Burnsworth is the second book in the Blu Carraway series. Blu is back in South Carolina after a successfully completed bodyguard job in Belize.

Now he'd like to rest and recharge and maybe try to win back his lady love. Abby's more difficult to bring around. When his partner Mick Crome appears to be going off the rails hanging out with women half his age, Blu worries their partnership might be going down the drain.

But a more critical event occurs soon. Mick's long-time girlfriend and local bartender Maureen has been kidnapped. Mick, it seems, received a desperate phone call from Maureen saying she is in trouble. When the phone is yanked away from her, a male voice says "Listen Crome, it's payback time. You took from me so I'm taking from you. I'll be in touch." The text message shows her in a room with white walls, scared with a gun to her head.

Blu and Mick know they have made many enemies over their years in business, but they try to dig
deep to find some clues about who has Maureen. When another case comes along, Blu takes it. Ron Jansen believes someone is following him and it probably has to do with the affair he is having with a local woman, one he would not name.

When a masked man hides out in the back of Blu's truck and announces that Jansen and the woman are not really having an affair, they want to bring big cruise ships to the port of Charleston. Blu is confused especially when the masked man says he has powerful friends who will stop the plan.

With the help of two young independent news correspondents, Blu and Mick follow the trail to its local conclusion. Suspenseful with plenty of action.

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