Killer Weekend        Cut and Run        Diary of Ellen Rimbauer        Parallel Lies        Chain of Evidence        Hard Fall        Probable Cause        Seizing of Yankee Green        Blood of the Albatross        Never Look Back

HARD FALL REVIEWS Ridley Pearson is back and better than ever. Hard Fall is a gripping thriller, loaded with the forensic detail we have come to expect from the author of Undercurrents and Probable Cause. FBI agent Cam Daggett has been on the trail of international trigger man and environmental terrorist, Anthony Kort, for two years. Kort is responsible for two airplane bombings, one of which killed Daggett's parents and left his son, Duncan, a paraplegic. Daggett is closing in on Kort, through one of his cohorts, when Daggett's boss opens a booby-trapped suitcase and blows himself and the link to Kort sky high. Back to the drawing board. Daggett picks up the trail when a Seattle flight instructor is found murdered at a flight simulator, and a plane crashes for no ostensible reason; deduction and forensic sleuthing point to Kort. The chase is on, and Daggett knows that he has limited time to run Kort to ground before the next crash. Pearson, who writes thrillers from his log cabin in Idaho, has constructed a complex and believable narrative, and at the same time created sympathetic and fully developed characters. With this novel, his sixth, he's hit his writerly stride.    —Valerie Ryan, Seattle Times Buy the book from an independent bookstore or Amazon.