Blind Spot by Tom Kakonis

331 Pages
Publisher: Brash Books
Release Date: August 4, 2015

Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers, Kidnapping

Marshall Quinn took his young son, Jeff, to the planetarium while his wife, Lori was looking at the museum gift shop. It was dark in the planetarium and after Marshall tilted his seat back, he fell asleep. When he woke up hours later, his son’s seat was empty.

Lori had to be medicated but Marshall is driven. It has been three months, and he has not given up looking for their son. When a car passes them and the woman passenger reacts to the missing poster in the car window, Marshall has a feeling they know what happened to the boy. He goes to the police, describes the car and the occupants as best as he can. Unfortunately, it is not enough for them to go on. With the end of summer coming and Marshall’s teaching job starting back up, he is under pressure to find the car and get information leading to his son’s abductors.

The book has a fast pace, the characters are developed, and it is written in the third person point of view. I have read several books by this author, and this was one of his best writings. Although there is child kidnapping, there is no abuse which would have made this a difficult read. If you like mysteries with action and chase scenes, you may enjoy reading this book.

Life is too short to try to read a book that doesn’t hold my attention. That is exactly what this book is.

The first three chapters were all I could get through before I said ENOUGH! The first and third chapters were about a child getting abducted and what read like a child selling ring. The second chapter was in a bar and the talk was in less than educated English – jive or cockney type talk. It was hard to read and follow what was being talked about.

A master criminal who isn't, an easy going faculty man who learns to go hard. Trafficking and twists that will hold you but some of the layering got me lost a time or two. Still this will be on the library shelf. Enjoy