Malice: A Pete Thorsen Mystery

The third installment in Wangard%E2%80%99s Pete Thorsen series proves to be a solid contemporary mystery. This time around, attorney Thorsen gets drawn into yet another murder mystery when he accompanies a reporter friend to a crime scene. Someone used a golf club to bludgeon Les Brimley to death before staking the corpse to the ground at a golf course near Lake Michigan. Brimley, a real estate developer, was an unpopular figure in the community%E2%80%94so there%E2%80%99s no shortage of suspects, including widow Susan Brimley, who turns to Thorsen for help when she%E2%80%99s summoned for questioning by the authorities. Though some scenes stretch credulity, readers will appreciate the author%E2%80%99s workmanlike prose and a plot that%E2%80%99s interesting enough to keep them turning the pages.