Review: Stratton looking for answers
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 8, 2014
This one was a super read.Jack is on leave for two weeks because his boss, Sheriff Collins, is dealing with the fallout from the college case Jack was involved in. The Sheriff is less than pleased and wants Jack out of Darrington and away from all the media.The Sheriff is also looking for ways to get rid of Jack. A Jack he sees as nothing but trouble for his department. A Jack who's a way better cop than the by the book Collins will ever be.Jack decides to go see his Mother who's finally surfaced in an institution.Of course Replacement makes sure she goes with him.Upon seeing his Mother he's flabbergasted that she looks so old and worn. She is suffering from demencia and years of drug abuse. Sometimes she makes sense and sometimes she's crazier than a hoot owl.Jack really wants to know about his Father. A man his Mother never mentioned. A man Jack really wants info on.His Mother loses it and screams about about someone named Terry, knife wounds and a death.Jack and replacement start investigating and head for Hope Falls where his Mother used to live.Once on site Jack finds out that his Father, Steve Ritter, was murdered by a pond. He was beaten and viciously stabbed many times.  He was seventeen years old. His Father was a kid everyone liked and his murder was never solved.The more Jack investigates the more he learns that his Father was an exceptional young man. A young man whom everyone had high praise for. He also learns that his Mother was considered the Town whore something that doesn't surprise him at all.He also meets his grandmother, Ritters Mother. A wonderful woman who is overjoyed to meet him, a grandson she never knew about.So begins one super read.This one has murder, attempted murder, Jack, Replacement, Jacks Grandmother, and assortment of people who knew more than they told the police at the time of Ritters murder, a mystery about police cars being on site before anyone notified the police of a murder, a dead Sheriff who thought the world of Steve Ritter, his living son who is now the Sheriff, a Mother who suffered sexual abuse, a grandfather who was a sexual deviant,  diving for evidence, friends and one super mystery with a great ending.Just one super read and well worth those five stars. Jack Stratton is awesome but Replacement? Not so much. I can only hope the author gives Jack a better lady friend. Replacement is pretty much an idiot in my book.