Target: A Pete Thorsen Mystery

Wangard launches a promising contemporary mystery series with this engaging debut, featuring Pete Thorsen, a Chicago lawyer turned amateur detective. As a managing partner for his law firm, Thorsen has his hands full. But he is unwillingly thrust into the middle of a murder investigation when Cara Lane%E2%80%94the woman he dined with the night before%E2%80%94is found drowned. Reports that the two argued at dinner, along with Thorsen's admission that, after the date, he went for a late-night walk that brought him to the crime scene, make him a natural suspect. To clear his name, the attorney digs into Lane's past, discovering that his dinner date was a former student radical involved in a bombing that injured two people 20 years earlier. Wangard's novel moves along%E2%80%94twisting and turning%E2%80%94at a brisk pace. And his well-drawn detective has enough personality to make readers excited for the next installment.