Amateur Hour

Natalie Dvorak #15:

Natalie Dvorak has earned a vacation from her job as a Vermont State Police detective. But crime continues back home as Natalie takes in the sun. Her young partner catches a drug case that leads to a task force investigation in the state’s largest town. Meanwhile, Natalie’s own brother makes an amateur inquiry after the son of a theater director goes missing in the same community. The police find out what the missing young man has been doing but don’t know who he is; Natalie’s brother knows who the young man is but not what he’s been up to. Dangerous criminals are involved and Natalie is pulled into the case as soon as she’s back in Vermont. By the time Natalie finds out what her brother has been playing at, a murder has been committed; what does the missing person know about the killing?

Included in this volume: The Rick Wagner Mysteries by Siegfried Feller – the author’s father wrote his own police procedurals more than fifty years ago. Did the apple fall far from the tree?