Book Review: A Sporting Murder by Chester D. Campbell
A Sporting Murder
Chester D. Campbell
Night Shadows Press, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-9846044-0-1
Trade Paperback
In his fifth fictional appearance, Greg McKenzie, a former cop who had worked for 25 years as a special agent for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, has been hired to look into the proposed arrival in Nashville of an NBA team, and to check out the rumor that something shady was going on among the NBA franchise seekers. As the city already has both professional football and ice hockey teams, it seems like a bit of overkill to further dilute the sports fan base to a point where none of the three could be truly viable.
Combining a terrific mystery with professional sports – what could be better?
Greg and Jill, his “bride of nearly forty years,” who together comprise McKenzie Investigations, receive a call from Arnold Wechsel, a young German who is the nephew of Greg’s old OSI colleague, asking for a meeting, telling him only that he has information about the NBA matter that will “blow the mind.” When Greg arrives at the designated meeting place, he finds the young man’s dead body. Greg is determined, on both a personal and professional level, to track down the killer. In the process, they survive a couple of serious attempts on their lives. And there is also the presence of a ubiquitous [and somewhat menacing] black Escalade to add to the mystery. As Greg says, “the professional sports franchise business [is] getting deadly.”
This reader by now feels an affinity for this husband-and-wife team, and cannot also help but feel a knowledge of and affection for their creator and his wife, who seem to be the models for the protags. A thoroughly satisfying holiday read [it is the week before Christmas as the book opens], and recommended.
Reviewed by Gloria Feit, November 2010.
April 9, 2011
Tags: husband and wife, mystery, Nashville, Night Shadows Press, private investigators, sports Posted in: Full Reviews
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