Review: Pocket-47 by Jude Hardin

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Oceanview Publishing (May 2, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1608090116
• ISBN-13: 978-1608090112

Product Description

 

Fifteen-year-old Brittney Ryan has taken to the streets. Leitha, her older sister and legal guardian, hires private investigator Nicholas Colt to find her and bring her home. Piece of cake, Colt thinks. With Brittney's forbidden boyfriend's address in hand, he plans to make a surprise visit and put this one in the scrapbook.But something more sinister is behind Brittney's disappearance, and Colt soon finds himself in an ever-widening maze of deceit, betrayal, and murder. When Colt learns what the mysterious phrase "Pocket-47" means, he is haunted even more by the plane crash that killed his family and rock band twenty years ago-a crash he now realizes might not have been an accident.Determined to save Brittney, Colt struggles to untangle the threads of his own tortured past. Unfortunately, one of the most heinous and violent criminals in modern history has other ideas. 

 

About the Author

 

Jude Hardin graduated from the University of Louisville with an English degree, and currently lives in northeast Florida. When he's not pounding away at the computer keyboard, Jude can be found pounding away on his drums, playing tennis, reading, or down at the pond fishing with his son.


My Review

I really enjoyed this book from the moment I began reading it!  Debut author Jude Hardin has made a great impression on me with Pocket-47.  A great cast of characters inhabit this fast moving crime thriller.  Florida Private Investigator Nicholas Colt specializes in missing persons and runaways.  He is also a former famous musician whose wife and infant daughter along with the members of his band died in a plane crash twenty years ago.  The memories of all of them continue to haunt him to this day.  While investigating the disappearance of teenager Brittany Ryan he discovers new information about the plane crash.  This novel has plenty of twists and turns and it was hard to put down!

Excellent debut crime thriller from author Jude Hardin.  I'm looking forward to many more!