Fury G.M. Ford June 2002 (massmarket paperback) ISBN 0380804212 Avon

G.M. Ford has become a real fan favorite of mystery readers with his series featuring Leo Waterman, a Seattle PI. The books are funny, well written and make for great reading. Part of this is due to Ford’s wonderful way with characters.

Ford continues this with his new series featuring Frank Corso. Frank is a reporter in Seattle, by way of New York. He is also a best selling author, when we meet him. But Frank Corso, like any good character has some baggage from the past. And this baggage makes itself known in the book though his interaction with others and how they see him. Very well drawn stuff!

In this first adventure with Frank we are brought into it by our old freind Leo Waterman, who has a small cameo in the beginning of the book. Frank is brought in to write a story about a prisoner who is going to be executed, apparently, wrongly. So Frank is facing more than one kind of deadline as he searches for the truth. Along for the ride is a freelance photographer who has some interesting things in her own past. Frank also manages to irritate more than just a few people with what he’s writing for the paper, including the police, the politicos in town and most of the readers of the paper.

The pace this book sets is fast. It immediately drew mw into the story and got me so interested that the world around me disappeared as I journeyed with Frank on his crusade. This is a truly wonderful book, and I hope to see more of Frank Corso in the future.

Now available in paperback!

Jon Jordan