Slaughter on Maple Street Bob McElwain Foremost Press ISBN: 0-9748921-9-X Fiction, Mystery, Crime Reviewed by Eugen M. Bacon

Slaughter on Maple Street does not dally but cuts straight to the chase with a funeral march. One thing Kyle Rieker knows: grown men do cry. No rock will remain unturned until he finds Marsha’s killer. And where best to start than Bridget Bennington, his late sister’s friend? But a lot of things do not add up in Kyle’s mind. What interest had Marsha on water supply in China, pandas in peril or the topography of Taiwan for starters? There is more to the shooting at Maple than meets the simpler eye; someone was scared, and Marsha’s death an execution.

Coppers are hiding something but, with inside help from LAPD bud, Lt. Walster, Kyle is happy to play, on his terms. Fearless of the slammer, tooled with Special Forces talent and animal instinct, he can handle tails, bugs and dead ends. But when some bum is keen on burying him alive if not worse, and the CIA are trigger happy in his direction, things start to get pretty nervy.

Bob McElwain plots a read-on tale speckled with cool dialogue. The story is neat, fast-paced and utterly brutal. Break-ins, hot wiring, traffic shootouts phosphorous grenades: action plenty.

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