Live Free or Tri: a collection of
three short mystery stories
is exactly what it purports to be as the three short story mystery tales in
this book are all good ones. At forty-five pages this very recent release is also
a very fast read.
“Live Free Or Die” starts off the
book where the 31 year old Jack comes to Don Mills, a suburb of Toronto,
Canada. He is ostensibly there to help with their collection rates having been
sent by the US Headquarters down in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. After taking
each staff member of the credit department out to lunch he finally gets to 21
year old Emmy. If you already know what probably soon happens you would be
right. It is a classic tale of the bad man fooling around with the naive and
far younger female employee. It is the aftermath where things go very
differently than what one would normally expect in such a tale.
Thirty miles outside of Toronto and
a world apart is the Holland Marsh. The rural area does not have grid locked
traffic, high rise condos, or all the rest of the big city nonsense. It does
have seven thousand acres of rich farm county that supports crops and a few
locals. It also has the isolation relatively free of traffic to make learning the
special skills of how to ride a bike in a triathlon.
For Carrie Anne Camack the swimming
and running parts of the triathlon she can handle. Mastering the proper
technique of the clipless pedal has been far more difficult. It isn’t very long
till the event in July which is why she is out and about this early Sunday
morning in the spring. She had a training plan and that did not include finding
a body in “Murder In The Marsh.”
A triathlon also serves as the
backdrop to the final story titled “The Cycopaths.” The Cycopath Triathlon Team
is working the icy waters of Sunset Point Park in Colling Wood, Ontario near
Lake Huron’s Georgian Bay. Half dozen swimmers went into the water for the 750
meter practice course, but not everyone came back out of the cold water alive.
These three fast reads in Live
Free or Tri: A collection of three short mystery stories feature a lot
of depth and plenty of mystery. The characters involved in the tales have
plenty of backstory that skillfully comes into play as the story works forward
in real time. Each mystery is complex with more than one small twist the result
is a highly entertaining read from start to finish.
Live Free or Tri: A collection of three
short mystery stories
Judy Penz Sheluk
Self-Published
January 2016
ASIN: B01AMIV9Z4
E-Book
(also available in print format)
45
Pages
$2.99
Material
was recently made free to all on Amazon in e-book format where I picked it up
to read and review.
Kevin
R. Tipple ©2016
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2 comments:
Thanks for such a great review Kevin!
Thank you for the read.
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