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Lydia Strong is a top true crime writer in Lisa Micione's latest work of the series. Ms Strong has an innate gift in which she can sense when something is wrong regarding a missing person or a crime. It is like some sort of Spidey-sense. She uses those hunches to investigate a crime and she is a pit bull when it comes to looking up for information. She never gives up and she always manages to get to the bottom of things. Police are reluctant to work with her because she often outdoes them, making them look bad. In SMOKE, a former writing student of Lydia has gone missing and no one has a clue to her whereabouts. A few weeks before her disappearance she made a call to Lydia asking for help, because she was way over her head on an investigation she was pursuing. For Lydia this is personal. She never returned the call and now she is playing the woulda, coulda, shouldas in her head and she wants to make things right. Unfortunately, even with the use of all of her resources it might not be enough and she will need help to get to the truth. SMOKE might be a Lydia Strong book, but that is not the way Miscione plays it inside this novel. She introduces two New York Police Department detectives, Matt Stenopolis and Jessamyn Breslow, who are in charge of the investigating the disappearance of Lily Samuels. They all want the same thing, to find Lily alive and they are willing to put their professional differences aside in order to find out what the truth is. They are left dumbstruck when they discover the story that Lily was working on and causes them to be more relentless in trying to find her. What I found impressive with this novel is the way that Miscione develops her story in a way that all of the characters are fleshed out in order to make the story a bit more credible. This may be a Lydia Strong novel, but it doesn't read that way. The two cops investigating also have lives. Being able to get a glimpse of their personal lives gives you a better appreciation of the book itself. If you have not tried one of Lisa Miscione's novels before, you will not be disappointed.
Reviewed by Angel L. Soto, December 2005
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