Day One

by Bill Cameron

Overview

Born and raised in southern Oregon farm country, Ellie Spaneker flees her home and abusive husband, unaware she's being tracked by an ex-cop in the hire of her vengeful father-in-law. In Portland, retired homicide detective Skin Kadash fills his idle days drinking coffee and searching for Eager Gillespie, a teen runaway of special interest as the only witness in a troublesome and long-unsolved murder. Eager, meanwhile, is on his own, grifting and oblivious to the danger he's in.

Bill Cameron lives in Portland, Oregon. His previous novels are Lost Dog and Chasing Smoke.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440530883
Publisher:	Gallery Books
Publication date:	06/01/2011
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	991,173
File size:	788 KB

About the Author

Bill Cameron lives with his wife and a menagerie of critters in Portland, Oregon. His stories have appeared in Spinetingler, The Dunes Review, and The Alsop Review. He is a member of Friends of Mystery and International Thriller Writers, and serves as Vice President of the Northwest Chapter of Mystery Writers of America.

Editorial Reviews

Set in Portland, Ore., Cameron’s richly flavored if contrived third crime novel opens with what looks like a familiar urban domestic crisis. But when battered ex-cop Skin Kadash, last seen in Chasing Smoke (2008), scans the crowd gathered outside the house in his neighborhood where a man supposedly has gone berserk and pulled a gun on his family, Skin recognizes the teenage skateboarder who was the sole witness to an unsolved Jane Doe murder a few years before—and so begins wondering whether the two outbursts of violence could be related. Like Skin, readers may become obsessed with making unlikely connections, as the book offers a montage of narrative fragments from different times and viewpoints, interspersed with “objective” but semi-informed newspaper reports. The characters’ operatically intense passions are powerful, but the extreme coincidences underlying the plot weaken the overall impact. (June)

Publishers Weekly

Retired homicide detective Skin Kadash (Chasing Smoke) resides across the street from a woman who lives in constant fear that her abusive ex-husband will find her. Meanwhle Skin is trying to track down a runaway teen who had witnessed a long-ago murder. VERDICT Readers will get caught up in this thriller's various plot threads, which will lead them to a sad yet satisfying conclusion.

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