"This author deserves to be a favorite of any mystery lover." - Amazon customer
Ray wants to win the Cedar Lake Chess Tournament and enjoy some alone time with his new girlfriend. He's in the right place, just at the wrong time.
When a man in a nearby town is killed, fears related to another brutal death decades before begin to surface. Has the old evil returned? Who else is in danger?
Small town secrets, hidden agendas, long held grudges, and thousands of acres of forest for a bloodthirsty killer to hide in combine to make Ray wonder if anyone will make it...till tomorrow.
Michael Weitz is the author of We Be Dragons and the award-winning Ray Gordon mystery series. He has also written short stories, television commercials, and documentaries. He is an avid chess player and student of the game, and has an eclectic mix of other hobbies and interests including reading, bicycling, photography, pool and astronomy. Michael lives in the Pacific Northwest region of the USA with his wife and dog.
An interesting mystery. Unfortunately, it is surrounded by poor dialogue and unrealistic chess tournament scenes e.g. an adjournment for a lunch break in the middle of a game? A small town’s werewolf legend crosses paths with a local chess tournament as a series of killings take place. Killings with the same type of methodology also happened in the town twenty years ago. Is there a connection? Is there a connection to chess? I gave his two prior books three stars, but Weitz has just not upped his game as far as his writing skills go (which are really kind of goofy, dialogue wise), so I can only give this one two stars. I did not think that the chess aspect of this book was particularly interesting. As a chess player, I will probably succumb to reading his future books, but my expectations will be pretty low.