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Detective Doyle Carrick is awakened by someone banging on his front door. Before he can get downstairs to the door he hears another kind of banging - that of gunshots. Flinging his door open he finds the very dead body of a stranger on his front stoop and just catches a glimpse of a woman in a car speeding away. Was she the shooter? Why had these people come to his house? This is how DUST UP begins. The action does not slow down for the next 350 plus pages.
Carrick soon learns that the victim is Ronald Hartwell and the woman speeding away was most probably his wife, Miriam. Both were employed by Energene, a huge bio tech company which has been developing genetically modified foods. The company is in a hot competition with another firm, most recently with a product roll-out in Haiti. Carrick began to suspect that Hartwell was either a whistleblower or involved in or had uncovered industrial espionage and had reached out to him because of Carrick's former cases. Unfortunately for Carrick, the case was assigned to his nemesis in the department, Mike Warren, whom Carrick viewed as a territorial prick. Worse, in Carrick's eyes, Warren was a lazy, bad cop. Okay, anyone who reads crime fiction is going to know where this is going. Carrick begins to investigate anyway digging himself in deep with the department heads, while Warren tries to shut him down at every turn. Carrick is not deterred however, and is soon having secret meetings not only in Philadephia, but Miami and Haiti as well.
DUST UP is the third novel by McGoran with Detective Doyle Carrick, but this is the first in the series that I have read. I mention this because I want to be clear that while I suspect it would have been nice to have Carrick's back story before reading DUST UP, it was certainly not necessary. From references made throughout the book, readers will learn that Detective Carrick, of the Philadelphia Police Department has had a couple of other exciting cases far from his home city. His actions with those cases have caught the eye of some important people; people who will come into play later in this book and gives DUST UP an interesting final twist.
§ Caryn St.Clair resides in University City, Missouri and is a former elementary school media specialist, President of the Parks Commission and a docent at the St.Louis Zoo.
Reviewed by Caryn St Clair, March 2016
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