Dmitri Fane is a world-class pairs figure skater. Just a few
weeks before the Olympic trials, he goes missing. His
partner, Dara, hires Charlie Swift and her investigative
firm to find him. Charlie's business partner is Gigi
Goldman, who became a partner when her husband left her with
a lot of debt. Gigi's daughter, Kendall, is a teenager with
a teen-sized attitude and an even bigger crush on Dmitri.
However, since Kendall is a figure skater herself, she may
be able to shed some light on the gossip at the rink and on
the circuit.
Charlie begins methodically investigating the usual avenues
until Dmitri's coach is brutally attacked and ends up in a
coma. Not long after that, one of Dmitri's co-workers (he
moonlit for a catering business to pay the training fees) is
killed. Charlie begins to sense that there's more to this
than Dara originally told her, especially when Dara's mom
calls and says that Dara has disappeared. Dara's mom
subsequently hires Charlie to find Dmitri in the hopes that
once Dmitri is found, Dara will soon follow.
Meanwhile, Charlie is trying to keep Kendall from
interfering in the investigation, and Gigi is clamouring to
try out a plethora of devices she's bought from online PI
sites, as well as techniques she's learnt from surveillance
classes she's taken since joining the firm. Fortunately,
Charlie is helped by Connor Montgomery, a detective on the
local police force. The flip side, though, is that Connor
seems to have a thing for Charlie, and she's still figuring
out how she feels about him.
Since Charlie has her hands full with Dmitri's
disappearance, she lets Gigi handle a case looking for a
runaway who has suddenly disappeared from a shelter. This
results in laugh-out loud scenes, as Gigi tries some of her
gadgets. But it isn't all fun and games - where is the
runaway known as Kungfu? And could his disappearance
actually have something to do with Dmitri's?
SWIFT EDGE is a light-hearted mystery that is fun and funny,
peppered with great characters, and totally un-put-downable.
The two missing persons cases were each intriguing, and
neither was so easily solved that the fun was taken out of
reading the book. The characters of Charlie and Gigi are
both well-written, although Gigi can, at times, seem a bit
of a caricature. Overall, though, the plot was well though-
out, and I'm sorry that I missed the first book in the
series. I'll be keeping an eye out for it, as well as
looking for other books in this series as they are released.
"DiSilverio...creates an engaging community of characters
readers will want to revisit."--Publishers Weekly
When world-class figure skater Dmitri Fane goes missing,
his
partner knows just whom to hire. It’s up to Swift
Investigations to find the missing Fane, and fast---the
Olympics are just weeks away. It should be no trouble for
the investigative team of Charlie Swift and Gigi Goldman:
Their chief obstacle is Gigi’s teenage daughter, Kendall,
and her mad crush on Fane. That is, until the skating
team’s
coach is brutally attacked and a colleague of Dmitri is
killed, and things start to get complicated.
Gigi’s corralling a lovesick Kendall and dying to test
out
the hilarious techniques from her surveillance class.
Charlie’s dodging bullets and fending off Detective
Connor
Montgomery’s advances. Their client is suddenly MIA. Can
Charlie and Gigi solve two missing-persons cases and a
murder at once, or will the culprit get off skate-free?
Fast-paced adventure, high-stakes intrigue, and the
madcap
capers of these unlikely partners-in-crime solving make
Swift Edge a delightful and welcome addition to the
series.
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