Book Review: Shot Girl

Reviewed By: Pat Reid - RAM

Shot Girl     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Karen E. Olson
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Woman Main Character
Series: Annie Seymour # 4
Obsidian Mystery, 2008, 302 pages

A party at a local club for one of Annie Seymour’s coworkers winds up as a murder scene. Not only is Annie involved but also the victim is her ex-husband. Annie is pulled in for questioning by Detective Tom Behr, Annie’s ex-boyfriend. It seems Tom found a gun in Annie’s car and there were gunshots at the crime scene.

Annie’s boss pulls her off of her crime beat until the murder of her ex-husband Ralph Seymour is solved. Dick Whitfield steps up to the plate to cover for Annie but this does not please Annie. She wants her place back on the crime beat and manages to keep involved even though she can’t write about it.

Although gunshots were heard at the scene Ralph did not die from a gunshot wound.

Vinny DeLuca is still around and keeping company with Annie but even Vinny isn’t in on all of her secrets in Shot Girl.

Annie keeps the reader entertained and constantly surprised. This is one novel where Annie keeps secrets that aren’t revealed until the very end of the book. I did find out the definition of a shot girl plus a new method of committing murder.

Pat Reid - RAM

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