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Silent Witness: A Sam Kincaid Mystery [Hardcover]

Michael Norman

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May 10 2008 Sam Kincaid Series
Sam Kincaid and Kate McConnell must once again look beneath the obvious in an increasingly dangerous scenario.
The armored car robbery went terribly awry, leaving two people dead. One was a member of the gang believed responsible for the crime. Walter Bradshaw, the 45-year-old leader of the Reformed Church of the Divine Christ, is charged with capital murder and aggravated robbery. Bradshaw leads an arch-conservative, anti-government group of Mormon polygamists who were once a part of Warren JeffsA[a¬a[ Fundamentalist Church. Captured after a high-speed chase, Bradshaw currently sits in a cell at the Utah State Prison, awaiting trial for the armored car fiasco. The rest of the Bradshaw gang remains at large.
Then two days before BradshawA[a¬a[s preliminary hearing, Arnold Ginsberg, one of two witnesses to the robbery, is stabbed and bludgeoned to death in a parking garage in downtown Salt Lake City. That same evening, the second witness, 24-year old AA University of Utah student Robin Joiner, narrowly escapes being kidnapped as she walks across campus to her car....
This is the sequel to The Commission, named one of the best books of 2007 by Publishers Weekly.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 280 pages
  • Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press (May 10 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1590584988
  • ISBN-13: 978-1590584989
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 454 g
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,711,993 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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From Publishers Weekly

In Norman's solid sequel to his well-received debut, The Commission (2007), cops Sam Kincaid and Kate McConnell try to unsnarl a tangle of crimes in Salt Lake City. First, Kate investigates the brutal murder of one witness to a botched armored car robbery, followed by the disappearance of the other witness. Then Sam, head of "a unit within the Utah Department of Corrections called the Special Investigations Branch," gets involved because the gang's mastermind is "prophet" Walter Bradshaw, a fanatical Mormon polygamist currently awaiting trial for the armored car holdup. Meanwhile, Sam has to cope with a new, excessively by-the-book boss and a lawsuit from his ex-wife seeking custody of their daughter. As personal and bureaucratic tensions almost sidetrack the investigators, Sam and Kate have to prove how smart and stubborn they are. Norman isn't an especially slick author, but he has a good grasp of police procedure and writes with the same dogged, decent persistence that Sam displays. (May)
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"A classic procedural thriller told with a voice of assured authority, Silent Witness is a terrific read in the best tradition of Michael Connelly or James O. Born." -- Julia Spencer-Fleming
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars enjoyable Utah police procedural May 11 2008
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
In Salt Lake City, police officer Kate McConnell investigates the brutal murder of Arnold Ginsberg and the disappearance of Robin Joiner; they are the eyewitnesses to a failed armored car robbery. Utah Department of Corrections Special Investigations Branch Chief Sam Kincaid joins Kate on her inquiry because the alleged armored robbery gang's leader, Mormon polygamist Walter Bradshaw awaits trial without any witnesses to testify against him.

At the same time as he works on the Bradshaw case, Sam also deals with his former wife filing for custody of their daughter. Still in spite of the distraction in his personal life that tears at his guts, Sam diligently and obstinately works the investigation along side of Kate; both hoping the college student who was snatched remains alive.

SILENT WITNESS, the sequel to (see THE COMMISSION), is an enjoyable Utah police procedural that uses the headlines of the Jett case to tell a strong investigative tale. Kate and Sam are competent cops trying to do the job, which entails rescuing a twentyish college coed while the brass hinders their efforts. Sam's personal life also intrudes on the investigation, but it is his new CYA boss who makes the inquiry that much more difficult. Michael Norman provides a fine thriller.

Harriet Klausner
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Not Bad July 16 2008
By Jody Lawrence - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
Aside from sloppy editing, this book wasn't bad. Not good, but not bad. The author's first book had a tight plot, but this one kind of meanders and doesn't go anywhere. There's no suspense and the climax seems hurried and forced. I hope the author will do better with his next book.
5.0 out of 5 stars Silent Witness May 16 2013
By Ann Louise - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Another great Sam Kincaid novel! The author, Michael Norman, has become a master in moving a powerful plot along with all kinds of twists and turns. I anxiously await the next in the series.

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