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Shadow Girl (An Afton Tangler Thriller Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Gerry Schmitt (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.4 78 ratings

Book 2 of 2: An Afton Tangler Thriller

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The brutal murder of a business tycoon leaves Afton Tangler and the Twin Cities reeling, but that’s just the beginning of a gruesome crime spree...

Leland Odin made his fortune launching a home shopping network, but his millions can’t save his life. On the list for a transplant, the ailing businessman sees all hope lost when the helicopter carrying his donor heart is shot out of the sky.

Now with two pilots dead and dozens injured, Afton Tangler, family liaison officer for the Minneapolis Police Department, is drawn into the case. As she and her partner investigate family members and business associates, whoever wants Leland dead strikes again—and succeeds—in a brazen hospital room attack.

The supposedly squeaky clean millionaire has crossed the wrong person—and she’s not finished exacting her revenge. The case explodes into an international conspiracy of unbridled greed and violence. And as Afton gets closer to unearthing the mastermind behind it, she gets closer to becoming collateral damage...

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01MXHV6CL
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley (August 1, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 1, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1256 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 314 pages

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Happy Grandma

Great trip through the Minneapolis area to catch the criminal .

Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2019

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I have lived in Minneapolis, where this book takes place, and it was fun to know where they were or where they were going. Also, for years I have read the other book series this author produces under a different name, so I was anxious to start reading the new series. It is very different from her other books, but very good. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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A gritty follow-up to Little Girl Gone.

Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2017

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Shadow Girl, the gritty follow up to Little Girl Gone, if full of twisty treachery and dark characters. With its spare style and short chapters, it is compulsively readable and entertaining.

Schmitt had me hooked from page two when the medical helicopter containing victim Leland Odin’s heart is shot down. What an innovative method of attempted murder! I actually found this to be the most exciting part of the book. Touted as a thriller, it is much more a police procedural, but there is plenty of danger and violence to go around. With his heart no longer viable, Odin’s fate is sealed, and others around him also meet an unsavory end. We follow along with Family Liaison Officer Afton and Detective Max Montgomery as they try to work everything out. Could Odin’s murder be personal – marital troubles or a greedy step-daughter? A matter of business – an avaricious partner or a business deal gone bad? Revenge?

I liked Shadow Girl, but knowing who the bad guys are from the very beginning is a little disappointing. I wanted there to be more mystery and puzzle to figure out. Instead, we read the action from several points of view, both good and bad, and I think this dowses any tension that might have been built otherwise. Readers must also suspend reality a bit because I do not think that a family liaison officer would be allowed to do any of the things Afton finds herself in the middle of. Afton wants to be a detective someday, and I hope Schmitt gives her a promotion sooner rather than later.

Afton and Max are both likable and honest characters. To me, they represent all that is supposed to be good in the world. They are both relatable and feel authentic. I do not feel we got to know Odin nearly well enough to mourn his passing, and, at times, this made it difficult to care about the motive of his murder. Mom Chao Cherry, her assassin Narong, and goon Hack are all sufficiently evil and flat-out over the top villains. They put people through some truly terrible things that are not for the faint of heart to read.

The Afton Tangler series is a big departure from Schmitt’s alter ego Laura Childs’ cozy mysteries and I think she succeeds in both genres as a writer of quality stories. I recommend Shadow Girl to fans of darker crime fiction.

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J. Coleman

Great fast reads that really hold your attention

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2018

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I just finished the two Afton Tangler books and enjoyed them so much. Hope there will be more. I read all of Laura Childs series and own quite a few of them. These two books are darker police procedurals and are very fast-moving. Well developed characters and intriguing plot lines.

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Dixie Darling

Absolutely an awesome book

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2017

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From start to finish, this was a winner! Talk about keeping you on the edge of your seat and reading well into the night, it was worth it!! Can't wait for the next Tangler thriller !

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Monnie Ryan

Interesting, Fast-Moving

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2017

Looking for a just-plain-good murder mystery with no female histrionics, flashbacks or chapters that flip back and forth from the perspectives of seven different characters? By golly, this one fills the bill. It's the second in a two-book series, and I must say I didn't feel at a disadvantage for not having read the first. Still, this one's good enough that if I could do it over again, I'd start at the beginning with "Little Girl Gone" (always my advice to anyone jumping into a series, BTW).

This one begins with an horrific scene in Minneapolis: Out of the blue (or perhaps more accurately, IN the blue), a helicopter is blasted out of the sky. Turns out it was delivering a donor heart to multi-millionaire Leland Odin, head of a popular home shopping network who's at the brink of death and waiting for a transplant. Needless to say, the pilots were killed, and the fallout resulted in dozens of injuries on the ground. Also not surprisingly, the police hit the ground running - most notably, family liaison officer Afton Tangler and her partner Max Montgomery.

Early on, it becomes clear that someone is out to get the ailing Odin; as he clings to life in his hospital bed hoping a new heart will become available in time to save him, someone manages to sneak in and slit his throat (thus rendering moot that new heart). Now, the investigation centers on who wanted the guy dead and why.

Could it be his business partner, perhaps hoping for a big payout by selling off the shopping network? Could it be his obscenely rich wife, looking for a big payout through inheritance (or possibly payback for his cheating heart)? Or could it be that his illicit business deals have crossed a powerful someone who then put Odin in his or her crosshairs?

There's a fair amount of violence that turns personal for Afton, who keeps following clues that bring her closer to the truth (despite warnings from her partner and other department officials to back off a bit, reminding her that she's not a "real" police officer and doesn't even carry a weapon). Of course, she doesn't listen - and the chase is on to catch the killers before they catch her.

In short, this is a perfect book for beach reading, or any time you simply want to get lost in a fast-moving, interesting story. Many thanks to the publisher, via NetGalley, for providing me with an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

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Helen Darcy

This is an amazing book, I couldn't put it down

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2017

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