Island Life
by Michael W. Sherer
Published by Five Star Press (March release)
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Reviewed by Andrea Sisco
When someone that has been intimately connected to you for twenty years disappears, how do you move on with your own life? Jack Holm has to learn how to do just that when his flight attendant wife doesn’t return home following what Jack thought was a day of shopping.
Days go by without word from Jack’s wife. He doesn’t panic at first because he thinks she may have taken a flight and not informed him or their son and daughter. And since the couple’s relationship has been strained, he is initially concerned, but doesn’t panic. He does share his concerns about her disappearance with his therapist. But he also shares that he wishes his wife were dead.
When she is found murdered, Jack finds himself involved in events that threaten his family and his own life. The police suspect him of murder and Child Protection wants to take his kids. The real complication, and perhaps danger, is that his family is being spied on. But who is doing the spying? And why?
Jack is forced to deal with the loss of his wife, a precarious financial situation, that fact that he is facing a murder charge and that his children are grieving. And his sister-in-law and mother-in-law are not helping matters.
Phone calls, a mysterious CD containing child pornography, and the Asian mob, all send Jack on a wild ride to find the answers to his wife’s murder. If he isn’t successful, he may lose everything.
Island Life is a dark and exciting novel. The plot sizzles and the emotion is powerful.
Armchair Interviews says: Those who love thrillers will surely enjoy Island Life.
Author’s Web site: http://www.EmersonWardMysteries.com