Product Description

Mac is back! And this time he's dealing with three difficult cases, two dead bodies...and a decision of the heart.

It's been just three months since Detective "Mac" McAllister solved his first homicide case with the Oregon State Police. Now he's working the search for a ski instructor who has mysteriously disappeared. The man's parents claim their son wouldn't have committed suicide, but they suspect his girlfriend of something sinister.

The case gets more complicated when Mac and his partner, Kevin, are called to investigate a gruesome homicide nearby that may or may not be related. A few days later, a body turns up in the Columbia River, and the autopsy reveals surprising information about the victim's suspicious death.

When their investigation seems at a deadend, Mac is determined not to let the crimes go unsolved -- even if it means putting his life on the line to catch the killer.

Fiction that reflects the grittiness of real life...and the reality of faith.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #736877 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

About the Author
HARRISON JAMES is in a supervising role in a major metropolitan police department. He coauthored the first book in the McAllister Files, "Secrets, Lies & Alibis," with Patricia Rushford. His career accomplishments include work as an undercover narcotics agent, as a detective investigating hundreds of homicide and sexual and physical abuse cases, and enforcing big-game poaching and back-country investigations. James has also appeared in several reality police/crime television series.

PATRICIA RUSHFORD is an award-winning author, speaker, and teacher. She is also a registered nurse and holds a master's degree in counseling. She is a prolific writer with numerous articles and over forty books to her credit, including "Secrets, Lies & Alibis" (with Harrison James) and "Deadly Aim" (The Angel Delaney Mysteries) along with the popular Jennie McGrady Mysteries. Rushford conducts writers' workshops for adults and children and has appeared as a featured guest on numerous radio and television shows across the country.

Customer Reviews

Another great book
This is a great book. I was held captive to it so much so that I stayed up all night reading it. What a great twist. It had me guessing up until that last couple of pages. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes Christian mysteries.

Great Mystery!
Another great "Mac Mystery"! I could not put this book down until I finished it. A great story that kept me guessing "who done it" until the very end. I would highly recommend this book!

The title fits the "so-called" quality of the dialogue. almost.
If you have ever had the displeasure of picking up a book, wishing to be entertained, only to find yourself gagging and gasping at the amateur level of supposedly professional writing that you begin to ignore the plot, and worry more about the horrific misuse of ink, as well as the pointless waste of so many innocent trees?
To be fair, some of the plot actually held promise. Better yet, some of the descriptions came close to being interesting - for all too short a time, unfortunately.

I found myself wishing (very hard) that the authors finally found a professional, talented and patient secret coauthor or editor to instill some reality, life and creativity into the dialogue. As the pages turned, the wish grew stronger. And stronger and stronger still.

(A DISCLAIMER) I reluctantly admit that my wishes were denied. Now, I read fast, and I read a lot, no less than three books a week. It is exceedingly rare for me to pick up a book and NOT finish it. My spousette claims that it is higher, based on the growing piles of finished books adding (my description, not hers) to each room's landscape and decor.

Alas, this was just such a book. About halfway through, I found myself unwilling and unable to risk any more of my sense of taste, sanity and my general feeling of happiness - all of which would have been at serious risk if I dared read another page of this pointless, inane pap. I suppose someone might enjoy it. My heart goes out to them because of their pitifully low standards.

Plainly put, this is a bad, badly written, and simply offensive book. It is not so much that it wears the authors' religion on its sleeve, its cover page, and its - never mind. It is not so much that the plot is both ocassionally promising and totally disappointing all too often. It is not that the dialogue seems to be penned by an autolobotomized coke addict paid by the word, not by any rational thought. It is all of that and more. Well, less, to be accurate.

DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS BOOK, unless like a hairshirt, you get perverse pleasure from self-abusing your sense of taste.