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Title: Aftershock
Author: Collin Wilcox
Narrator: Andy Caploe
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-29-15
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
For the sake of his lover, Hastings risks his career and chases a stalker.
For the past few weeks, Lieutenant Frank Hastings's girlfriend has sensed that she was being watched. They are on their way home from a too-chic party when Hastings spots something moving in the bushes - a shadowy figure who appears to have a gun. He should call for backup; he should stay in the car. But to protect Ann, this detective is willing to risk everything. After a chase, Hastings apprehends the lurker, but what he thought was a gun turns out to be a shotgun mike. Is someone recording Ann?
Shut out of the case because it concerns his girlfriend, Hastings focuses on the murder of Flora Esterbrook Gaines - a 70-year-old woman found murdered in her garage. Greed is the obvious motive, but finding a suspect proves tricky. Hastings divides his energy in a desperate attempt to uphold the law while at the same time protecting his beloved.
Members Reviews:
Policework in 1975
First Sentence: For the past several blocks, sensing that the silence suited our mood, we'd made no effort to make conversation.
Lt. Frank Hastings has problems. His newest case is the murder of a wealthy 70-year-old woman. Found bludgeoned in the garage of her San Francisco, Sea Cliff district home, it appears greed is the motive. But who is the killer? In his personal life, Hasting's girlfriend, Ann Haywood, begins feeling watched. Events escalate and Hastings knows the identity of the stalker, but has been ordered to stay away as it relates to a pending case.
It is very interesting to look at 1975 as it was written in 1975. Some men still wore hats, people smoked, there were no cell phones but there were police call boxes. There was still blatant sexism and racism, though less so in previous decades. And police procedures have changed significantly.
One of the most interesting this is to see what was considered rich back then. Frank is amazed at someone paying $1,000 a month in rent, which is much less than I pay now. However, I lived in San Francisco in 1975, paid $300 in rent and could only afford that with a roommate.
The plot is a basic police procedural. For the murder, it is classic investigative techniques of questioning the witnesses and following the evidence. With the stalker, it is much more confrontational with an element of violence and the ending was very exciting.
There are 18 books in the Frank Hastings series, ending with Wilcox death in 1996, and I'm having a wonderful time reading through them in order. Just an interesting point, he also wrote the books upon which the television series "McCloud" was based.
AFTERSHOCK (Pol. Proc-Lt. Frank Hastings-San Francisco-Cont/1975) - G+
Wilcox, Collin - 6th in Frank Hastings series
Random House, ©1975, US Hardcover
Riveting
I am not fond of books with multiple plots. But in this story the author manages to keep them independent. I recommend this book.