‘Shot’ by Jenny Siler

Published by Orion,
17 October 2002.
ISBN: 978-0-75285328-7 (HB)

When Carl Greene is shot to death, Lucy Greene finds herself catapulted into a rollercoaster of events.

On the day of her husband’s funeral, she is contacted by an old school mate Kevin Burns who says that Carl had requested an urgent meeting just the day before his death. Wanting just to be left alone, Lucy blanks him. But then she disturbs an intruder in Carl’s office, and then people from his company turn up and take away his papers. Gradually Lucy becomes aware that there are people out there who want something that Carl had, and now they think she has it.

Forming an uneasy alliance with a Darcy, a female burglar who has her own agenda, and to protect her sister Angie, the three set out to uncover the secrets for which Carl died. To escape a contract killer they travel from Denver through Wyoming and into Montana where they stay at a retreat run by som friends of Darcy’s. But it seems there is no place for them to hide, and their only chance is to unmask the truth behind the company for which Carl has worked, the Bioflux Corporation.

This is a powerful book which I could not put down. The pace grips you and holds on, even though there are periods on introspection these provide a background to the characters that makes them believable.
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Reviewer: Lizzie Hayes

Jenny Siler grew up in Missoula, Montana. She has travelled widely and worked her way around the world, starting as a prep-cook in a men's soup kitchen, through working in a fish cannery in Alaska, to being a nude sketch model in Germany. Her work, she says, has defined her and her writing. Recently she married, and returned to her roots in Montana.