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Chris Klick #2
Aim for the Heart
Chris Klick, amateur missing-persons bloodhound, ex-musician, and sometimes-sleuth, would really like a day off. But after a small plane plummets into a gas station in rural Idaho, Klick knows that’s impossible. Instead, he must team up with his buddy Lyel to track down a missing county courthouse employee connected to the plane crash and other freak accidents. Was she kidnapped? Is she on the run from her creditors? Searching for answers and finding only trouble, Klick’s questions pile on and the stakes climb higher.
Originally published under the name Wendell McCall from 1988 through 1999, author Ridley Pearson’s Aim for the Heart, the second installment in the three-book Chris Klick Mysteries series, retains all of its hard-boiled wit, grit, and sense of adventure today.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ridley Pearson is a New York Times bestselling author with over 24 novels published. His work is extremely diverse, from children’s fiction to crime novels, paranormals, and adventure. His novels often incorporate a compelling combination of realistic high-tech forensic wizardry and hair-trigger suspense. One of his best-known crime novels, Undercurrents, contained cutting-edge forensic ideas that helped solve a real-life homicide case. Another, Chain of Evidence, was the first to raise the possibility of a “crime gene”—which later became the focus of a high-profile genetics conference. He has published several popular crime series featuring recurring characters, as well as standalone novels under his own name and the pseudonyms Joyce Reardon, Ph.D., and Wendell McCall. His latest thriller, The Red Room, featuring John Knox, appeared in June 2014.
Pearson was the first American to receive the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship at Oxford University, the site of his research for best-selling novels No Witnesses and The Angel Maker. He was also a founding member and bass player for the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band comprised of best-selling authors including Dave Barry and Stephen King.
Originally published under the name Wendell McCall from 1988 through 1999, author Ridley Pearson’s Aim for the Heart, the second installment in the three-book Chris Klick Mysteries series, retains all of its hard-boiled wit, grit, and sense of adventure today.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ridley Pearson is a New York Times bestselling author with over 24 novels published. His work is extremely diverse, from children’s fiction to crime novels, paranormals, and adventure. His novels often incorporate a compelling combination of realistic high-tech forensic wizardry and hair-trigger suspense. One of his best-known crime novels, Undercurrents, contained cutting-edge forensic ideas that helped solve a real-life homicide case. Another, Chain of Evidence, was the first to raise the possibility of a “crime gene”—which later became the focus of a high-profile genetics conference. He has published several popular crime series featuring recurring characters, as well as standalone novels under his own name and the pseudonyms Joyce Reardon, Ph.D., and Wendell McCall. His latest thriller, The Red Room, featuring John Knox, appeared in June 2014.
Pearson was the first American to receive the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship at Oxford University, the site of his research for best-selling novels No Witnesses and The Angel Maker. He was also a founding member and bass player for the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band comprised of best-selling authors including Dave Barry and Stephen King.
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154 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1990
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November 25, 2023
This little thriller, told in first person, is a non-stop action mystery. The good guys are empathetic despite their flaws. The bad guys are really bad. And the solution to the mystery doesn’t reveal itself until the very end.
The writing style is matter of fact with occasional rhetorical flourishes and strong metaphors. But what makes the book entertaining is its pace. There are no side shows, and no distractions. The story is told, the reader is drawn in, and it’s all very satisfying.
If you like fast-paced action thrillers, this is the book for you.
The writing style is matter of fact with occasional rhetorical flourishes and strong metaphors. But what makes the book entertaining is its pace. There are no side shows, and no distractions. The story is told, the reader is drawn in, and it’s all very satisfying.
If you like fast-paced action thrillers, this is the book for you.
September 18, 2019
Second in an old series by Ridley Pearson writing as Wendell McCall, and a short one at that.
Chris Klick, hunter of musicians of the past in order to get their due royalties to them, works on a couple cases in between installing a sprinkler system in his friend Lyel's property, while mourning the lady who left him when her case was resolved.
There's the beautiful woman who wants to hire Klick to help land a large warehouse in California as a manufacturing site.
And then there's the local gal, a tad country, who wants to hire Klick to help find her missing sister, though she really can't afford to pay him for the work.
Along the way, there's a plane crash where it appears the pilot attempted to eject from the burning plane and skewered himself and set fire to a vet clinic and a few other things.
There's blood, broken bones, mayhem, guns.....the usual!
Chris Klick, hunter of musicians of the past in order to get their due royalties to them, works on a couple cases in between installing a sprinkler system in his friend Lyel's property, while mourning the lady who left him when her case was resolved.
There's the beautiful woman who wants to hire Klick to help land a large warehouse in California as a manufacturing site.
And then there's the local gal, a tad country, who wants to hire Klick to help find her missing sister, though she really can't afford to pay him for the work.
Along the way, there's a plane crash where it appears the pilot attempted to eject from the burning plane and skewered himself and set fire to a vet clinic and a few other things.
There's blood, broken bones, mayhem, guns.....the usual!
August 13, 2020
I did not expect to like this as much as I did. This is, overall, well written, with a believable plot, and a crime which makes sense. I liked Chris, the protagonist, as well. I'll be keeping an eye out for other books by this author.
January 4, 2015
This book was on my mother's bookshelf when I was a kid. I really enjoyed and it took it with me when I moved out. I recently reread this book and enjoyed it again. A little predictable, after reading it as an adult. But, enjoyable, nonetheless.
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