PALM BEACH SHOOTER

TOM TURNER

If you’re looking for a diverting, entertaining, and engrossing police procedural, pick up Palm Beach Shooter by veteran author Tom Turner. All of Turner’s characters are again on the stage: Charlie Crawford, a detective by way of Manhattan, Mort Ott, his partner, and the rest of the solid cast, including Charlie’s girlfriend and his one-time girlfriend, a well-known and prosperous realtor.

A mass shooting has occurred in Palm Beach, the home of the wealthy and the wannabes. A man walks into a country club and proceeds to gun down three victims and injure more. Crawford and Ott are faced with dozens of questions; number one, who is the guy, and why did he commit such an egregious crime? Unlike traditional crime scenes, there are no leads, no forensic evidence, and very little help supplied by the few eyewitnesses that Crawford and Ott interview. Palm Beach Shooter is about good old-fashioned police work, which means wearing out shoe leather, talking to people on the phone and in person, and trying to put together a reasonable timeframe and chain of events. Palm Beach Shooter is for anybody who enjoys their police procedurals straightforward and right on the nose. Turner is more than adept at writing a great procedural; he does it with mastery and flair. I highly recommend Palm Beach Shooter, which can be read as a standalone. I suggest that the reader familiarize him or herself with Turner‘s long list of well-written, entertaining, and movie-like backlist. Turner is an excellent writer, as Palm Beach Shooter proves once again. Do yourself a favor and go to your nearest bookstore, library, or other platform to pick up all Palm Beach titles. I promise you will not regret it, and you will have added a professional writer who never fails to tell a fantastic story.