This is the second Alina Adams figure skating mystery that I read. It features our amateur detective: Rebecca "Bex" Levy, a researcher for 24/7 TV network. She works behind the scenes, snooping around to find the solutions that her boss demands.
This story takes place in Russia. Igor Marchenko, a Russian skater who defected from that country in his teens, is now a distinguished figure skating coach, and he has returned to Russia for the first time since his defection. While in this country, however, he collapses and dies at a practice session. Bex (and her attentive Russian translator) investigates.
This book was pretty interesting. I especially liked the brief look at what happens to the families left behind when a Russian skater defects. This book is focused more on coaches than skaters and I found it more interesting than the other that I read (Death Drop).
Again, this book was pretty clean--very little swearing and no sex scenes--and generally enjoyable if you like mysteries. I'd never seen a mystery set among figure skaters before I found this series, so I think the stories are rather unique too.
Thank you so much for the nice reviews, Aubrey. You've made an author very thankful on this day!
ReplyDeleteI am currently in the process of turning all my skating books into enhanced e-books with professional skating videos embedded as part of the story. I'd love to send you a sample to look over.
You don't need a Kindle or Nook to experience it, just the free Kindle app and anything with an Internet connection like a PC, Mac, laptop, phone, etc...
Please e-mail me and I'll get it out to you, ASAP.
Happy Thanksgiving!