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(More customer reviews)Smoke Screen continues the series begun with Multiple Listing, featuring Sydney Teague in her second outing. This novel takes us beyond the typical amateur sleuth adventure, covering themes of obsession, family and forgiveness. The journey Sydney takes here is deeper than the solution of the murder disguised as suicide that starts the book - it encompasses a searching of the past, both hers and the victims for answers that extend past the "facts of the case".
The seriousness of the issues is leavened with Sydney's self-deprecating humor, the relationships with her employees and her children (a NY mystery book store owner praises Grant's ability to write about children -"she just gets it" - and I agree), and the gentle pricking of Charlotte, NC's wannabe self absorbtion.
The depth of thought here does not in any way remove the lively pace. I couldn't put it down. A compelling book from an author who has much to give.
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Where there's smoke. . .Sydney Teague makes her living by using her head, not her heart.But when it came to Seth Bolick, she couldn't help herself.He was a man obsessed, plunging his life and soul into one remarkable invention: a safe synthetic-nicotine substitute.When she agreed to take him on as a client of her small Charlotte, North Carolina, ad agency, Sydney could not imagine the work she would end up doing for Seth: It's her job to find his killer.The police call it a suicide, and so does Seth's family.Sydney knows they're wrong.When she starts investigating Seth's last days and the forces that were gathering against him, she exposes a pattern of lies and murderous violence amid the tobacco-rich fields of North Carolina.Now Sydney Teague is not just another hard-driving businesswoman who doesn't know when to quit: She's the next, best candidate for murder....
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