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| Feb. 17, 2015, the Boerne Star |
Las Vegas private eye Gypsy Moran
double-crossed a mob boss and he’s on the run back to his childhood home of
Wink, Texas—a place he closed the door on twenty years earlier, vowing that he
would never set foot there again. At least he could enjoy a visit with his
sister, Rhonda, whom he hasn’t seen for years.
A vacation, however, isn’t in the
cards for Gypsy. One of Rhonda’s former students, twelve-year old Tatum
McCallen, has enlisted her help in proving that his father’s recent death was
not the suicide that the sheriff’s department claimed it was. The boy found his
father hanging from a backyard tree. Tatum believes that his dad, deputy
sheriff Ryce McCallen, was killed for launching an investigation into the disappearances
of several undocumented teenage immigrant girls.
Tatum’s mom is out-of-the picture,
and with his dad’s death, the boy is being cared for by his disabled
grandfather, Burke McCallen. Wheel chair-bound, Burke is a retired deputy who
was almost killed by a bullet in his back. He and Tatum talk good-hearted Gypsy
into looking into Ryce’s death. With his death classified as suicide, Ryce’s
life insurance won’t pay a dime. Tatum is in jeopardy of losing the family home
and there certainly won’t be funds for college.
Gypsy and
Rhonda have something in common with Tatum—their dad walked out on them when
they were kids about Tatum’s age. Gypsy is very much aware of the emotional
pain that Tatum is experiencing with the loss of his father and abandonment by
his mother. He reluctantly agrees to help unravel the truth.
After only a day in Wink, Gypsy runs
into his former love interest, Claire, who he left in a lurch twenty years
earlier. He had abandoned her just as his father had deserted him. Despite
being married to a state senator, Claire is ready to rekindle her relationship
with Gypsy. The attraction between them is just as strong as ever and they pick
up where they left off years before.
Gypsy enlists the help of a
beautiful investigative reporter to help him solve the mystery of the true
cause of Ryce McCallen’s death. As they uncover an illegal human trafficking
ring, they put themselves in jeopardy.
Wink of an Eye by LynnChandler Willis (St. Martin ’s Press Minotaur Books, ISBN:
9781250053190) has something for everyone—a boy and his dog, murder, romantic
entanglements, police corruption, high tech surveillance, and suspense galore.
Willis won the “Private Eye Writers of America ”
competition for this debut novel and is the first female in a decade to do so.
She is a natural storyteller and, hopefully, Gypsy will be back in a sequel.
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