Reflections on the Ninth Week of Fall – With a Vengeance

 

Annette’s fourth Zoe Chambers mystery engaged me. Like her three preceding 

novels, Annette switches POV between Zoe. a paramedic plus assistant coroner, 

and Pete, a police chief. The murders targets first responders—firemen, police 

officers, and paramedics. Zoe and Pete are in the crosshairs.

The time span would have been appropriate for a short story, but Annette applies

maximum tension, reveals in depth personalities, and weave subplots. Her red 

herrings worked well. I didn’t guess the villain until he caught Zoe. Amazingly, in

the tense, morbid scenes, she adds humor. A master writer.

I’m looking forward to the fifth Zoe Chambers mystery, though if her publisher 

would let her, she could dub them the Zoe and Pete mysteries.