Lion's Head Revisited
A Dan Sharp Mystery
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Publisher Description
A case brings PI Dan Sharp to the northern Ontario wilderness, where he has to face his own dark past.
When a four-year-old autistic boy disappears on a camping trip, his mother is reluctant to involve the police. Instead, she calls in private investigator Dan Sharp after a ransom demand arrives.
On investigating, Dan learns there are plenty of people who might be responsible for the kidnapping. Among them are an ex-husband who wrongly believed the boy was his son; the boy’s surrogate mother, now a drug addict; the boy’s grandmother, who has been denied access to her grandson; and a mysterious woman who unnerves everyone with her unexpected appearances.
A trip to Lion’s Head in the Bruce Peninsula, where the boy disappeared, brings Dan unexpectedly into contact with his own brutal upbringing. But when a suspected kidnapper is found dead, Dan suddenly finds himself chasing the ghosts of the present as well as the past.
Customer Reviews
Abusing Fans of Dan Sharp
Definitely not my favorite Jeffrey Round book. It’s the second consecutive book in the Dan Sharp series to be published out of order, which throws the chemistry of the character’s relationships into chaos. I could overlook this in the Shadow Puppet because of the controversy surrounding the original timing of publication, but there is no obvious literary justification for this second out-of-sequence book - unless it was not deemed worthy originally to precede the God Game but somehow now it is. There are also numerous flashbacks that are poorly placed and add little to the overall story. Regardless, I believe the author and publisher are abusing their fans and I don’t want anything further to do with either.