Shadow Girl
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The brutal murder of a business tycoon leaves Afton Tangler and the Twin Cities reeling, but that’s just the beginning of a gruesome crime spree...
Leland Odin made his fortune launching a home shopping network, but his millions can’t save his life. On the list for a transplant, the ailing businessman sees all hope lost when the helicopter carrying his donor heart is shot out of the sky.
Now with two pilots dead and dozens injured, Afton Tangler, family liaison officer for the Minneapolis Police Department, is drawn into the case. As she and her partner investigate family members and business associates, whoever wants Leland dead strikes again—and succeeds—in a brazen hospital room attack.
The supposedly squeaky clean millionaire has crossed the wrong person—and she’s not finished exacting her revenge. The case explodes into an international conspiracy of unbridled greed and violence. And as Afton gets closer to unearthing the mastermind behind it, she gets closer to becoming collateral damage...
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At the start of Schmitt's uneven second thriller featuring family liaison officer and single mom Afton Tangler (after 2016's Little Girl Gone), a surface-to-air missile destroys a helicopter bringing a heart for transplant to the University of Minnesota Hospital. The authorities initially believe the strike was the work of terrorists, but the reader knows from the start that the killers were indirectly targeting against the heart's intended recipient, Leland Odin, the owner of the Diamond Shopping Network. Who knew that the heart in the helicopter was destined for Odin? Afton and Det. Max Montgomery, of the Minneapolis PD, question the millionaire's strangely distant wife and his bored teenage stepdaughter, along with Odin's business partner and other associates, none of whom seems overly concerned about Odin's health. Schmitt keeps the plot moving at a good clip, but Afton's readiness to carry a gun and race into danger is at odds with her personal and professional obligations and is likely to leave the reader confused as to what her role is supposed to be.)
