Ed Earl is Back

The fatal saving grace

Imagine telling how you were thought to be dead and ATF and DEA files labelled Deceased.  No issue me documents and money changes hands, reports destroyed and law dog paper no one had to worry about. But things changed in an unexpected way but first let him tell how someone tapped him and thought he was dead. Page 3 tells more about an Alice Baker’s brother doing a bank robbery sent him a ticket to Texas but this Frankie was a snitch and  explains how deadly she is and how he caught the lover but there’s more. 

When we meet Ed Earl after someone we learn how he gets it done. But what happens and what he hoped you’ll be surprised. Meet the Sheriff he works for and how and why he got his gold badge back. The conversation gets hard core and he’s on a case but the sheriff wants his deputy with him and Ed Earl well is he going to help or babysit him?

Burch is  our narrator and states is a loner and he didn’t need a ….badge but the gold shield and the one and only investigator for the Cuervo County District Attorney’s Office, he answered to sheriff Doggett. No interview and Burch helped rid of the sheriff who came before. But the sheriff had his own feelings about him due to the murder of Burdet and a family member of the sheriff’s cousin lost his life . Then Carla Sue and she what’s her role? 

Why does  he call  the county’s ace crime tech Katie that her role and her role in keeping the county coroner from messing up. 

Betty his gun and cared for it when PI had to avoid anything legal. Kept her hidden and the plan and how to scare the you know what out of Mauricio and get him to talk. Paragraph 1 page 31 spells it out.Burch spoke about the case and who he was close to and how will that affect them when a person he liked was killed and tortured because of him. But Quintero had his own ways and did guns get fired today? Lonny is their target but first need to catch 2 .,,,s. 

Who is the prey? We meet Mauricio and what Earl does is short of murder but his ways are graphic and powerful plus loads of pain. Then who will he give up and who is El Duque. Bobby is a strong adversary. 

Then allowed at a crime scene with Bobby and the author allows us to see how Burch assess the scene  and who is Santiago Cruz ? Connection to Leigh Burdette. It gets who is tied to whom? But Cruz bit the dust and in a horrible way. Face to face with Cortes but leaving it to the Deputy on the case last line before star! Then what did Burch say and then can you upset the dead! Then Quintero and what will this scene show and how does Cruz fit? Read his answer paragraph starting with Yeah and that paragraph and one after. How did he wind up mutilated and worse? Garza  a man named Gustavo and one Francisco : El Tiburon and Azul. But the sheriff spoke with Burch and he gave him the details you might not want to read page 63 gory. 

Gets more intense as we meet the new Claire Doyle and her son Charlie but events turn dangerous when a man faces her and threatens her her friend Carlos gets her and her son out but to where?  Each chapter leads to more murders as Ed faced off with Settles, Lonny, and what does Katie share about a DNA match Ten leads him to Lonny who killed Settles and Lonny who has a young girlfriend who’s not too bright but not to worry! He knew what happened to Cruz and 116 reveals how the girlfriend of Lonnie was escorted out and not bright. 

Doggett next and his deputies  and settling a score but another kill and information lost . Dalrymple and his girlfriend where is she but Lonny was spooked and part of a dangerous group Chizik.  The title Fatal Saving Grace since fatal means causing death or destruction. While a saving grace means I’d redeeming quality or feature. 

We meet Rita and her many legal and illegal roles and her link to Tommy John . Then she meets Charlie and why?

Then meet Chizik and hear his voice as he justifies murders and lives in a place that is owned by Jingles an unsavory man and learned his friend Mike was killed how?

The deaths of Frankie and Brad described as straight out of Leviticus. He allows us to hear more about his kills and seems pompous and proud. Then reflects on Burch and how he hones into play. Chizik 

will do it his way as a new player and boss come into play. Terry is now the head and told his job. Plus this guy wants to find his daughter who was deadly reflective of his visions of her his demands. 

Meet Valentina so deadly and is talking with her men about a kill and learns who’s responsible. But why the warning for her? Burch wanted to know more about Chizik and Valentina next but why a Fed? Rhonda Mae is next but everyone is after someone and she’s worried about Charlie but on the lamb no one is safe.  Then Chizik is back and is after Ed Earl but he adds Jerry and his retreat and why Cindy and Rhys edit?

La Guerra and where? Go to Nancy and Cindy has a gun on him. 

Then let’s leave Chizik and Burch is called to the coroner and in italics the voice of the caller and reflects on the past. Then a threat. Then Carmen calls and why? But it was Rhonda who lied . Will Hector save her ? Then she tells Burch and who’s out there?

Then  where is Quayle’s and Quintero and then Chizik. Then the final confrontations Burch and Rhonda plus chasing the mark and the bandits.

The what happened to Nancy Jo? Plus the killer Chizik has Charlie.

Then it’s about to end and will they get Charlie back and the barn will he save him or get tagged? Then the final reveal will he keep the badge or not? You decide as you real the final kills and who did them. You decide what he does?

Packed with violence , hard boiled murder and a cast of characters you don’t want to confront, The Fatal Saving Grace; you decide?

Fran Lewis just reviews