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FROZEN
by Jay Bonansinga
Pinnacle, August 2005
346 pages
$6.99
ISBN: 0786017236


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There have been eight similar murders in one year -- the first in Sun City, Illinois, the rest in Colorado. FBI profiler Ulysses Grant was brought in after the second murder, nine months earlier, but he hasn't been able to get very far with the crimes. He flies to Colorado to see the current corpse and which point he goes into a fugue state and passes out.

The head of his department, Special Unit Director Thomas Geisel is concerned and tries to take some of the pressure off by giving Grant a letter from Alaska about a 6000-year-old mummy found frozen in a glacier by a couple of hikers. Geisel tells Grove to follow that case instead of the Sun City murders.

Grove flies to Alaska. Maura County, the reporter for Discover magazine who had been the one to write to the bureau, suggests they meet at the Heinrich Schliemann building in the archeology lab to talk with Dr Lorraine G. Mathis, the director.

When Ulysses sees the ice man. he is struck with its position and wounds. They are the same as in the posed corpses of the victims of the Sun City murderer. Director Geisel sends Agent Terry Zorn into the field, purportedly as Grove's assistant but also to watch over him, since Geisel is worried about his increasingly strange behavior,

The story moves along. The ending is telegraphed a bit before the end, but the chase is still exciting. The characters are more or less the usual cardboard cutouts of the standard thriller but in this type of novel, one shouldn't expect character development and story. The phraseology sometimes feels awkward, and sometimes, words are misused (as cadenza for credenza and Restin (Virginia) instead of Reston) but generally, this is good airplane or beach reading.

Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, June 2005

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