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(More customer reviews)Lisa Polisar is that wonderful combination of writer and musician. Not only is she a professional jazz flutist with a degree from the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut, but she is also a prolific writer. Her first psychological thriller, BLACKWATER TANGO, was published in 2002. She's added short fiction and book reviewing to her list of accomplishments. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Southwest Writers. She currently lives in New Mexico.
Tamara Kindrel is a graduate student, finishing up her requirements for her Ph.D. She's found something in the Hagen Mineral Mine, and her last visit there turns out to be deadly. A telephone call from a disembodied voice warns her away from the mine, but her determination compels her to go to her doom. Her skeleton isn't found for two years.
When it is, Sheriff Judd Eakins calls upon Leo Drucker, a Law Enforcement Ranger with BLM. Judd has complete confidence in Leo's abilities. Leo has a history with Tamara Kindrel, which sets the scene for this psychological mystery, much of which takes place in Leo's head. A meeting with an old teacher and mentor dredges up the past for Leo, parts of which he doesn't want to remember:
"'From what I understand, you and Tamara and some of your friends were swimming in one of the deeper parts of the lake. It was a real sunny day so the sun lit up the bottom and you could see the vegetation growing. Tamara evidently realized that she's lost the necklace she was wearing and dove to the bottom to look for it. The way I heard it, she came up for air and not finding it on the first dive, and then dove again--but that time she never came up.'"
Polisar's emphasis in this mystery is not so much the traditional whodunit, although for the characters it's an important question. Rather she focuses on what all the major players are thinking, and what drove the motive for the murder. From a law enforcement point-of-view, this mystery is compelling. How does the investigator get inside the heads of both the victim and his or her killer? With little evidence to go on, this proves to be a formidable task in KNEE DEEP. Polisar's writing style is clear and concise, and she has no problem drawing the reader in to her Southwestern world of intrigue.
Shelley Glodowski
Senior Reviewer
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Tamara Kindrel vanishes after her final visit to the Hagen Mineral Mine. In the same mine, two years later, a mineralogist discovers a shaft containing bones, artifacts -- and a human skeleton.What begins as an exploratory meandering quickly turns to obsession as Sheriff Judd Eakins and Law Enforcement Ranger, Leo Drucker track down a killer with a two-year headstart.
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