Review: Pleasant read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2012
Ice on the Grapevine, Proud Horse Publishing, British Columbia, e-book by R. E. Donald  is a mystery in which a frozen solid victim is discovered when a long-haul refrigerated truck is opened. The drivers are a newly married, much in love couple, one of whom has a checkered past.  A fellow trucker who is a former detective with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police believes in their innocence and gets involved, employing his still remembered ample analytical skills and his old contacts. He is a `nice guy' with a divorced wife, two barely adult daughters and a heavy psychological burden from his service days, where he was an `officer of the old school'.The action moves from the International Northwest Border to associated local areas and towns in Canada and on down the West Coast of the United States to L.A. It is varied and involves drugs, prostitutes, and blackmail.The story provides a few hours of pleasant reading and introduces a number of characters and situations that we would like to know more about. Reviewed by John H. Manhold, award winning fiction/non-fiction author.