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Hodges Creek, Indiana becomes a stadium for a sequence torpedo who targets Sheriff Quade Randal for murder. The women in Quade's life start to spin adult dead, apropos spawn in a landscape. Each murdering is a captivate that brings Quade closer and closer to a killer. When Quade meets Genna Leslie, a new schoolteacher in town, and falls in adore with her, a stakes turn higher, as a torpedo sets his sights on Genna. He knows a policeman would be peaceful to do anything to save her, though would he be peaceful to die?
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #60954 in eBooks
- Published on: 2010-05-06
- Released on: 2010-05-06
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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About a Author
Sue Gratton was innate in Madrid, Spain scarcely 51 years ago, though was lifted in Fairborn, Ohio. She has authored 5 prior books, and lives with her mom in Beech Grove, Indiana.
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3 of 3 people found a following examination helpful.
An engaging start for a suspenseful saga
By Dennis Batchelder
Sue Gratton's Copper's Bluff tells a initial partial of a story of a policeman pitted opposite a sequence torpedo who binds a personal hate opposite him.
Quade Randal is a policeman of a tiny midwest town. His film star looks and plain-spoken demeanour have all a women around chasing him, though he's also being chased by a sequence killer, his passed wife's brother, and an clandestine FBI agent. In a book, we learn how all these characters are connected to any other and to Quade. We also get to knowledge utterly a few deaths as a movement heats up.
Gratton tells a story from a points of viewpoint of Quade, a schoolteacher who's unequivocally a clandestine FBI agent, and a sequence killer, and she switches a points of viewpoint rapidly. we favourite generally a schoolteacher's viewpoint and her dilemmas as she evaluated what Quade's actions, both past and present, meant to her. At times we felt that all 3 of these characters indispensable to grow adult and act like adults, though I'm guessing that Gratton's saving this partial of their expansion for a sequel.
Now about a significance of a sequel: but giving any spoilers, we can contend that a book ends like a Friday part of a soap opera: we need a supplement to follow story's arcs to their conclusions. Will Quade get a sequence torpedo before some-more people die? Are he and Genna means to overcome their feelings of betrayal? Did a bad male indeed kill a many critical chairman in Quade's life? We won't know until Gratton publishes a subsequent episode... don't leave us in suspense!
4 of 5 people found a following examination helpful.
Remarkably good initial bid by a self published author
By Robert C. Ross
There are, of course, many sequence torpedo mysteries, and we contingency confess that Silence of a Lambs, generally a film version, done me something of an addict to a genre. This initial novel set in a Midwest is a estimable claimant for consideration.
Sue Gratton writes clearly and well, her tract is twisty and suspenseful, and a favourite is faced with some critical issues when he finally catches adult with (or is held adult with by) a killer.
What we unequivocally enjoyed about this book was how Gratton brings a characters to life. Early on dual policemen, partners for a series of years, are in armed dispute over a immature woman. Each knows a other's strengths and weaknesses, and Gratton has a conspicuous ability to make any man's actions unchanging with their common past during a life and genocide struggle. That ability pervades a novel in several other passages.
Gratton expresses thankfulness to Beech Grove Police Chief Rich Witmer for permitting her to talk him; a talk bears glorious fruit in bringing her military characters to life.
This is a fast, unequivocally beguiling instance of a sequence torpedo genre.
Robert C. Ross 2010
PS: we wish authors would supplement a cover to a outline of a Kindle versions of their books. Of course, these are "virtual covers", given they don't unequivocally "cover" anything. But, a cover of a tough duplicate chronicle of this novel is haunting, it adds to a "feel" of a novel, and we titillate any Kindle client or sampler to take a demeanour during a tough cover chronicle to assistance set a environment of a novel. B.
1 of 2 people found a following examination helpful.
Copper's Bluff Leaves You Hanging
By James A. Anderson
Finally got around to reading Sue Gratton's initial novel COPPER'S BLUFF on Kindle. A good review for usually $1.99.
It is an perplexing mystery/thriller told from 3 viewpoints -- Quade Randal, Sheriff of Hodges Creek, Indiana, a former Homicide investigator suspected of murdering his wife; Genna Leslie an clandestine FBI representative sent in as his daughter's teacher. Her assignment: get tighten to Quade and expose any justification of his impasse in his wife's death. There is also a male from Quade's past stalking a sheriff, with murder on his mind.
Gratton's book is an engaging review that grabs we from a beginning. Very suspenseful, nonetheless during times a bit overdramatic. we enjoyed it altogether and it ends with a cliffhanger to be carried on in her second book. we have churned feelings about that technique. Not a large fan of books that don't solve their categorical plot. After reading a book, we design some fortitude of a story. Not unequivocally satisfactory to make we buy a second book to find out what happens.
Overall a flattering good bid for a initial time self-published novel and it was an interesting read. The cover looks great! we give it 4 stars.
James A Anderson, Author
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