Thunder Moon

Judd Wheeler #2

by Richard Helms

Police Chief Judd Wheeler investigates after an NFL draft pick, Steve Samples, is found dead in a house he rented from Wheeler's closest friend Kent Kramer.

Genres: Mystery

412 pages, Hardcover

First published June 15, 2011

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

aka Eric Shane and Noah Roarke
Three-Time PWA Shamus Award Nominee. Author of the Pat Gallegher series set in New Orleans, and the Eamon Gold series set in San Francisco. Editor and publisher of The Back Alley, a webzine featuring hardboiled and noir fiction for a new century.
On May 2, 2008, he became the only author ever to win TWO Short Mystery Fiction Society Derringer Awards in the same year, for THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO GORDON BLACK, which was published under his own name in Kevin Burton Smith's Thrilling Detective Website, and for PAPER WALLS/GLASS HOUSES, which was published under his pseudonym Eric Shane in his own Back Alley Webzine. It's been a big year!

Series:
* Pat Gallegher
* Eamon Gold
* Judd Wheeler

Reviews

[Araych · Rating 4 out of 5]

Judd Wheeler #2. Police procedural set in small-town Prosperity, North Carolina. Wheeler is the Chief of Police and certainly has his hands full what with a biker gang war, a serial killer, a paroled sex offender showing up in town, missing girls and a murdered football player. Busy days, right? More plot than characterization but the book is very well done. I found it exciting and suspenseful. Book is recommended to others, 4 stars.

[Lynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite honestly I picked up this book at a used book sale in the library. I am not all that interested in law enforcement crime solving. However, this author did keep me engaged and I was not able to guess who the various perpetrators were nor how many of the crimes were actually interrelated until the last few pages.

[Steven Houchin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a great page-turner, where Prosperity's Chief of police faces multiple murders and too many suspects. Great atmosphere in the author's descriptions.

[Theresa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed the various subplots which kept me engaged until the end. The way the author developed the narrator was wonderful. It was different because a lot of "old-fashioned detective work" was involved. This was the first book I read by this author and I will definitely pick up another!

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Would like to see more in this series.