BLUE ICE, a Palmer Morel Mystery, gets good review.

Title: Blue Ice
Author: Larry Rochelle
Illustrator: Larry Rochelle
Publisher and/or Distributor: Book Surge
Publisher Website: www.booksurge.com
Pages: 330
ISBN: 1-4196-1750-8
Price: $15.99
Publishing Date: November 2005
Reader: Bob Spear, “Heartland Reviews”
Publisher and Chief Reviewer, Heartland Reviews
www.heartlandreviews.com
Rating: 4 hearts

Blue Ice is an excellent mystery of place. The author lives in Kansas City and it shows. This mystery captures the geographical, cultural, and criminal feel of Kansas City and its surrounding rural areas. The story is about a tennis pro whom a crime figure is trying to sucker into buying an old, defunct theater building that is due to be grabbed for eminent domain purposes soon (a topic of immense importance to Kansas City residents who have seen many people screwed by the government’s high-handed manner of grabbing land and turning it over to favored developers). The protagonist has to balance his steps toward retirement from the tennis tour with pregnant girl friend problems, adoring other women, bad weather, and kill-happy hitmen and women. We rated this four hearts.