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Title: The Shadow File

Subtitle: Bryson Wilde Thriller

Author: R.J. Jagger

Narrator: David H. Lawrence XVII

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-13-13

Publisher: Dark Sky Publishing, Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Bryson Wilde, investigator for hire, lives in an edgy world where the dames are dangerous, cigarettes dangle from ruby-red lips and the nights are hotter than whiskey-soaked jazz. In this riveting noir thriller from R.J. Jagger, The Shadow File, Senn-Rae Vaughn, Esq., a beautiful young solo attorney, hires Wilde to conduct an investigation on behalf of her client that is so dangerous and against the rules that she can't even tell her client it is being done. Almost immediately both Senn-Rae and Wilde are thrust into a staggering thriller of unimaginable consequences.

Jagger's noir thrillers featuring private investigator Bryson Wilde (The Scroll Lawyers, The Shadow File, Wilde Ways) are all set in 1952 Denver and can be read in any order. The third book in this series is scheduled to be released by Pegasus Book in hardcover on August 1, 2012, under the name "A Way With Murder." Jagger is currently hard at work on the 4th book in this series. The "noir" series follows Jagger's series featuring homicide detective Nick Teffinger. There are 11 books in the Teffinger series.

Members Reviews:

Great for Lovers of Noir

This time RJ Jagger has come right out and told us that the story is set in the summer of 1952, in the midst of the time when noir flourished in novels and films. It's just a few years after the war, and most of the men we meet are veterans, including the hero, private eye Bryson Wilde. His name, of course, is ironic, because he has a tendency to bend the rules a lot. B&E may get a cop's attention, but it's all in a day's work for this PI. He's also a drummer who's in constant demand as a fill-in for Denver's nightclub scene. Add to that the facts that he's in his early thirties and handsome as all get-out, and it's no surprise that the ladies pay attention. One in particular, is Alabama. In the first novel she simply walked into his life and announced that she was working for him. She's even more visible here, and several times her ideas and insights augment Wilde's own. I imagine that someday we'll find out why she calls herself Alabama, but for now her presence creates a constant sexual tension that is only intermittent otherwise. In The Shadow File, Wilde is hired by a beautiful lawyer to find out why she has been hired by a guy who claims to be a serial killer. Add to this a subplot involving stolen atomic secrets, a beautiful waitress who stole a car in New Mexico to drive to Denver, a young lawyer who befriends her and gets her a job, a CIA agent looking for her sister's killer, and a mysterious woman living in a gated house, and you have an interesting mix. Jagger cuts back and forth between the stories in an interesting way. You know that before the book is finished they will all intersect. They don't exactly, though, and the ending seems a bit abrupt. I didn't care, because all the right elements are here: the hard-boiled private eye with more scruples than he'll admit to; the gorgeous girl Friday who keeps him grounded; beautiful clients; even more beautiful dead bodies; a national security issue contemporary with the times (remember Mulholland Falls, the Nick Nolte version?); things and people not being as they seem; rapid danger and a surprise ending.