Ohio resident Emily Locke has begun to put the pieces of her
life together after the deaths of her husband and young
daughter four years ago when a blast from the past brings
turbulent emotions to the forefront. Disgraced Austin police
officer turned private investigator Richard Cole has come to
ask for Emily's assistance in the case of a kidnapped child.
The police believe it's a parental abduction but Richard's
clients disagree. A skydiver's jump ticket was found outside
the boy's house, leading Richard to suspect a skydiver is
involved in the disappearance. Since Emily is the only
skydiver he knows, she's his lifeline to that world.
Emily believes that Richard is responsible for the failure
to get a conviction in the kidnapping of her friends' son.
Now another boy is missing. Coincidence? As Emily gets to
know the owners, staff and patrons of Gulf Coast Skydiving,
she has flashbacks to the case that introduced her to
Richard four years ago. Readers are gradually told the
details through Emily's journal entries written when the
events transpired. Emily's suspicious of several people at
Gulf Coast Skydiving, including a pilot the missing boy's
mother recognizes.
Just who is responsible for the kidnapping? Is this case
linked in any way to the kidnapping four years ago? Emily's
stumbled onto a conspiracy more far-reaching than she could
ever have imagined. Will she live long enough to bring the
kidnappers to justice? And just how does her family's deaths
factor in this case?
FINAL APPROACH features an unusual protagonist—a female
chemist who's also a skydiver. I do love books that feature
women in the scientific field. The writing isn't very
polished, but this may be due to being the author's debut
novel. It's obvious that Ms. Brady is familiar with
skydiving and her narrative covers skydiving basics without
getting too technical. A surprising plot twist will have
readers breathlessly racing through to the end.
Sometimes clues just fall from the sky. Four years ago
Emily Locke's life was shattered when her infant daughter
and husband were lost in an inexplicable accident. She has
nearly rebuilt her fragile mental health when Richard Cole,
a disgraced former police detective now working as a PI,
resurfaces. He wants help he says only she can provide—
reconnaissance at a Texas skydiving establishment over a
thousand miles away. Emily knows better than to work with
him again, but can't refuse when she learns it's about a
missing boy. She identifies too greatly with the new
missing child case.
At Gulf Coast Skydiving, similarities between this new case
and Emily's troubled past make it increasingly difficult
for her to stay objective. Soon she's convinced that she is
somehow connected to whoever took little Casey Lyons.
Someone at the quiet, rural airstrip knows what happened to
the boy . . . and to Emily's own daughter.
To find Casey before it's too late, Emily will have to make
sense of the menacing parallels between his case and her
daughter's.
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