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Thorn is a laid-back kind of guy who likes nothing better than to create fishing lures at his Key Largo place and engage in a little private investigation. He's recently received a sizable inheritance and has plans to use it in ways that will benefit others. The project he is looking at now involves a land swap with a wealthy rancher, Earl Hammond, that will result in the preservation of several hundred miles of land. He is dependent on his significant other, Rusty Stabler, to work through all of the necessary details. Rusty has been an important part of his life for a while now, and Thorn is on the verge of asking her to marry him. He plans a huge party, totally atypical for him, where he plans to pop the question. Unfortunately, associates of Earl Hammond have learned about the proposed deal and decide that they need to waylay Thorn. They crash the party and find that Thorn has had way too much to drink, which makes it easy for them to spirit him away. They place him in a huge sinkhole on the outskirts of Hammond's Coquina Ranch. Of course, Rusty and Thorn's longtime partner Sugarman go all out to find him. The most interesting character in the book is Earl's son Frisco, who is a very honorable police detective who is somewhat estranged from the family. His brother, Browning, is a greedy son of a gun, married to a woman named Claire who is too good for him. Claire gets caught in the middle of a confrontation between Browning and his father and ends up shooting one of the long-time help. Hall has a tendency to make some of his characters into caricatures, with Thorn's kidnappers and Browning falling into that category. The book concludes with all the parties coming together in the ultimate showdown. I was never really caught up in SILENCER. Overall, I found that the focus of the book was spread too thin over the Hammonds' issues and family relationships, the environmental message and Thorn's rather ludicrous entrapment; and I didn't find it to be suspenseful at all. § Formerly a training development manager for a large company, Maddy is now retired and continues to enable the addiction of crime fiction fans as owner of the online discussion group, 4 Mystery Addicts(4MA), while avidly reading in every possible free moment herself.
Reviewed by Maddy Van Hertbruggen, June 2011
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