It is late February in a very cold and icy Chicago as Echo:
A Harriet Foster Thriller by Tracy Clark begins. Ice pellets are
failing hard this morning and Detective Foster’s day has already been nasty before
she gets inside the station and to her desk. She doesn’t even have a chance to
take off her coat before her and Detective Symansky are out the door and on the
way to a frozen field outside Belverton College.
The field, located outside of Hardwicke House has a
dead body. The Hardwick House, that goes back to the Gilded Age, is owned by
the well-known billionaire, Sebestian Coller. As it happens, the body out in
the frozen icy wasteland of a field is his young son, Bruce Collier. He is
shirtless, reeking of alcohol and vomit, and clearly has been out in the field
for hours.
Was it a party gone wrong? Did he get drunk and disoriented,
wandered outside into the field, collapse, and freeze to death?
Or was it murder?
Before long, as readers already know from the first
chapter, it most assuredly was murder. Not was it murder,
the people behind it are not done yet as they have a score to settle. Detective
Harriet Foster and others have a complicated case to work while at the same
time Foster is the target of another killer.
A complicated and very good police procedural, Echo is
the latest installment of an excellent series that started with Hide, followed
by Fall. Readers are encouraged to read in order, starting with Hide, as
previous events are discussed here.
Amazon Associate Purchase Link: https://amzn.to/3ZxEqIo
Aubrey will also be reviewing the book here this
coming Monday.
My reading copy came from the publisher, Thomas &
Mercer, by way of NetGalley, with no expectation of a review.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2024
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