Review #107
The first case for the Blackman and Robertson Detective Agency of Asheville, North Carolina, involves the two newly licensed sleuths in the history of their town in the mid-twentieth century and in the more recent past of former warrant officer Sam Blackman, who lost a leg and two comrades in an ambush in Iraq.
Blackman no sooner retrieves a lockbox from the bank for elderly client, Ethel Barkley, than the box is stolen from his office and a security guard is killed. The client says the box contains a stolen manuscript belonging to F. Scott Fitzgerald…one she wants returned to the heirs of Fitzgerald. Within days, Ethel is dead, apparently tortured before she was murdered.
While Blackman and his partner and, lover, Nakayla Robertson, puzzle out connections between the lockbox, Fitzgerald, and an old-time Nazi organization, they're also confronted with rogue mercenaries targeting Sam for, presumably, smuggling loot out of Iraq and double-crossing his accomplices.
Interesting book! I liked it!
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