Killer Summer
Written by Ridley Pearson
Narrated by Phil Gigante
3.5/5
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Sun Valley, Idaho-playground of the wealthy and politically connected-is home to an annual wine auction that attracts high rollers from across the country, and Blaine County sheriff Walt Fleming must ensure it goes on without a hitch. The world's most elite wine connoisseurs have descended on Sun Valley to taste and bid on the world's best wines, including three bottles said to have been a gift from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams. With sky-high prices all but guaranteed for these historic items, it's no wonder a group of thieves is out to steal them. Walt is responsible for all the security for the glitzy event, the safety of the dignitaries, the auction site, and the wines themselves.
Walt is enjoying a rare afternoon of freedom, fly-fishing with his nephew Kevin, when a passing truck catches his eye-and his suspicions throw him headlong into the discovery of a complicated plan to steal the rare wine.
When a bomb explodes just as the auction revs up, the investigation explodes as well, pulling Walt in a dozen different directions. He is caught in the middle of a heist of epic proportions-and not the heist he had prepared for-orchestrated by the ingenious mind of Christopher Cantell, a man who seems to have prepared for everything, including the way Walt's own sheriff's office will react.
"In Sheriff Fleming, Pearson has created a likable, sympathetic protagonist, forever challenged by ferocious weather, a feisty citizenry, and feral criminal minds." -Booklist (starred review) on Killer View
Ridley Pearson
Ridley Pearson is the bestselling author of over fifty novels, including Peter and the Starcatchers (cowritten with Dave Barry) and the Kingdom Keepers and Lock and Key series. He has also written two dozen crime novels, including Probable Cause, Beyond Recognition, Killer Weekend, The Risk Agent, and The Red Room. To learn more about him, visit www.ridleypearson.com.
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Reviews for Killer Summer
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Walt Fleming is the sheriff in Idaho. His nephew, Kevin has a job at a lodge. Kevin takes up with a guest, Summer and they go out to visit her father's Leerjet. Meanwhile there is a plan afoot to steal the jet, unbeknownst to the teenagers. They are hidden away when the plane takes off. The plane runs into trouble and sets down on an isolated airstrip. Kevin and Summer must try to escape.Walt learns that his nephew is in trouble and sets to find him and rescue him.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not one of Ridley's best. Mediocre story development but ended pretty strong.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Could not get into it at all.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is my first Ridley Pearson read, the third with the protagonist, Sheriff Walt Fleming (Killer Weekend and Killer View). Walt is a likable hero, a guy with a complicated family life. He is being divorced by his wife, who is living with their two daughters and one of Walt's own deputies. Walt is also trying to be a father figure to his nephew, Kevin, who recently lost his father.This book is different than the usual suspense, crime novels as the reader meets Christopher Cantrell, the mastermind criminal at the beginning. The main plot is about an attempt to heist three very rare bottles of wine from the annual wine auction in Sun Valley. There are a lot of subplots- the daughter of a wealthy producer, Walt's relationship with a co-worker, the possibility of the wine being fake and the cover-up, Kevin's relationship with a reckless rich girl and his questions about his father's death. I really had to pay attention to the details while reading this as the plot was a a little more intricate than the usual fare. But it was suspenseful and kept me hooked until the end. Cantrell is a great, complicated character and added a lot of psychological suspense.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Although I have been a fan of Ridley Pearson’s work for a long time, "Killer Summer"was my introduction to his Sheriff Walt Fleming series. Now, having read this third novel in the series, I plan to go back to the first two books to get a better understanding of how Walt Fleming came to be the man he is. Walt is the sheriff of Sun Valley, Idaho, and although he does not have to contend with a lot of violent crime, being sheriff of an enclave of some of the wealthiest people in the country comes with its own special problems. At times, Walt feels more like a combination baby sitter/politician than he does a peace officer. So when a large group of wealthy wine connoisseurs gathers in Sun Valley for an event culminating in the auctioning of three bottles of wine believed to have been gifted to John Adams by Thomas Jefferson, it is pretty much business-as-usual for the sheriff. True, Walt’s personal life is not what it could be. The father of twin daughters, he now has to contend with the fact that his soon-to-be-ex-wife is living with one of his own deputies. As if that embarrassment were not enough, Walt, who barely has the time to be with his daughters, knows that he also needs to find time for his seventeen-year-old nephew, Kevin. The sudden death of Kevin’s father has left the boy without a male role model in his life and Walt’s sister looks to him to fill that gap. Things begin to get complicated when the private security agent hired to bring the three John Adams bottles of wine to Sun Valley becomes the victim of a heist-gone-bad. Walt Fleming and his small group of deputies are left with the unenviable task of solving the attempted theft of the valuable wine while simultaneously guarding that same wine until it can be delivered to the winning bidder later in the week. Walt soon begins to suspect that not all is what it seems to be regarding the bottles of wine and their current owner. Just when things start making a bit of sense to the sheriff, however, the situation careens out-of-control and he finds himself searching frantically for a hijacked airplane that may have fallen from the sky and the two teens, one his own nephew, feared to have been taken hostage by the hijackers at take-off. "Killer Summer" is a quick-paced, but rather complicated, thriller that requires a little extra attention from the reader if the crime at its heart is to be completely understood as Pearson reveals it layer-by-layer. Readers might be tempted to rush to the book’s cliffhanger ending, but that would be a mistake. They should, instead, take a deep breath and make sure not to speed past any of the story’s important details. They will be happy that they did.Rated at: 4.0