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    The First Victim
    The First Victim
    The First Victim
    Audiobook9 hours

    The First Victim

    Written by Ridley Pearson

    Narrated by Scott Rosema

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Lieutenant Lou Boldt, the Seattle cop who stars in Ridley Pearson's deservedly popular series, is a sharp and touching figure—perhaps the most believable police officer in current fiction. Early in this ninth book about his public and private life, Lou has to put on a bullet-resistant vest to lead a raid against some dangerous criminals. "The vest was not physically heavy, but its presence was," Pearson tells us.

    It meant battle; it meant risk. For Boldt, a vest was a symbol of youth. It had been well over a year since he had worn one. Ironically, as he approached the hangar's north door at a light run behind his own four heavily armored ERT personnel, he caught himself worrying about his hands, not his life. He didn't want to smash up his piano hands in some close quarters skirmish. . . . Boldt plays jazz piano one night a week in a local bar, and despite his concern for his hands, he takes every opportunity he can to get away from his desk and into the streets. But money pressures, caused by his wife's recent illness, also make him think about the possibility of a better-paying job in the private sector.

    Meanwhile, some extremely ruthless people are murdering illegal Chinese immigrant women and leaving their bodies buried in newly dug graves. An ambitious local TV journalist named Stevie McNeal and the young Chinese woman she thinks of as her "Little Sister" risk their lives to investigate the killings, while Boldt and his team round up a most unusual array of suspects.

    This combination of hard-edged realism and softer sentiment has become Pearson's trademark, and once again it works smoothly. —Dick Adler

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 25, 2007
    ISBN9781423314349
    The First Victim
    Author

    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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    • 3/5
      I have thoroughly enjoyed the first 2 books in this series. But this one, not so much. I don’t mind a slow or arduous start to a book, but I have come to realize that the narrator is just as important to keep my attention. This narrator is grating to my ears. I can’t get beyond him. The narrator in the first two books was a perfect match. This one is choppy and just plain dull. Can’t do it. Will read the narrative of this novel to keep up with Boltd life but will try the next novel. If it’s the same narrator I may skip again or drop the whole series. Narrator voices matter!
    • 5/5
      Lou Bolt (Seattle Homicide) is at it again. This time trying to track down the scum that is importing Chinese women for slave labor. I love mysteries set in Seattle and I have enjoyed Ridley's Bolt series. But he's gotten married and had children, and that has changed the action of the character. I'm increasingly annoyed by characters who do or don't do things because of what might happen to their children. I understand it is a fact of life, but it's a cheap way to direct action and I don't like it.
    • 4/5
      Having read, and really enjoyed, Pearson's first book The Pied Piper, I was prepared to enjoy this one as well. And I did but I didn't think it was as well-written as The Pied Piper so I was a little disappointed. There were a couple of occasions when I thought "In real life this wouldn't happen." Nevertheless it is a suspenseful story and the issue deserves some exposure. The police officers from The Pied Piper are back in this story (Lou Boldt, now a lieutenant, and his crew). The story opens with a container ship trying to transfer a container to a barge during a fierce storm. The container falls into the water and when it is opened by the Coast Guard there are a number of young Asian women in it but three of them are dead. A local TV anchorwoman is one of the first media people on the scene and she decides there is more investigation needed. She asks her adopted sister, Melissa, a free-lance reporter to follow up on the story. Melissa is Chinese so she is perfect for the assignment. Meanwhile Boldt and his crew are trying to find the people responsible for the deaths of the three women in the container. Everytime they home in on a suspect, such as the ship captain or the owner of the crane, that person ends up dead. Boldt thinks someone is leaking information from their investigation. Then Melissa disappears and her sister is frantic. The details about the people smuggling are probably authentic and they are certainly disturbing. This book made me thankful that I can live and work in comfort and prosperity in my own country. Spare a moment to think about all those people who cannot.
    • 3/5
      Mildly entertaining; however, the ending seemed a bit contrived and "hurried" and less than satisfying to this reader.